NEW YORK / OTTAWA, November 28, 2011 Sub-Saharan African countries that train, and invest in, their doctors end up losing billions of dollars as the clinicians leave to work in developed nations, finds research conducted by the University of Ottawa. According to the study The financial cost of doctors emigrating from sub-Saharan Africa: human capital analysis published on British Medical Journal’s website, South Africa and Zimbabwe have the greatest economic losses in doctors due to emigration, while Australia, Canada, the

The directors of the UNHCO Special-Missions have been invited by the Secretary-General, H.E. Hamit Manar, to the annual Directors’-Conference in the UAE, which was held between the 22nd and the 24th of November 2011.

In addition to the discussion of the annual work programme 2011 and the activities of the local missions on the basis of the earlier adopted programme, the director of international relations of the UNHCO, Rodolfo Vasquez, initiated a discussion about the new work programme of the Organziation.

Researchers at the University of California, Berkley and the University of Liverpool have found that severe pneumonia cases in young children are cut by one-third when homes have cooking stoves equipped with smoke-reducing chimneys. The Lancet study showed the negative health impacts of smoke exposure from dirty cooking stoves and open fires. Cooking stoves are the main source of cooking and heating for approximately three billion people worldwide.

Ethiopia has been selected by the Society for AIDS in Africa (SAA) to host ICASA 2011, which expects to welcome more than 10,000 participants from around the world including Heads of States and Governments, Eminent Scientists, renowned health workers, high-level policy makers, people living with HIV and AIDS (PLHIV), community and opinion leaders as well as activists working in the fields of AIDS, STIs as well as Tuberculosis & Malaria. Society for AIDS in Africa (SAA) selected Ethiopia to host