El Deber’s end of the year awards has chosen well, Minor Vidal is awarded, an article written by Roberto Navia, follows: Minor, strengthened by an award Minor Vidal, the sole survivor of Aerocon’s plane, returned to fly. In his Office in Trinidad received the news that he is the personality of the year, he thanks…
Category: Health
Dengue kills three people in Cochabamba
HoyBolivia.com reports: The director of the departmental service of health (SEDES), Guido Sanchez, confirmed this Saturday the third dengue death in Cochabamba. “That person came from Ivirgarzama (Chapare) and died around noon Tuesday in the Viedma Hospital.” “We know that he was at least 10 days without medical care,” Sanchez reported. It was reported that dengue…
AIDS in Bolivia
This article appeared in La Razon, November 27, 2011; for full Spanish article, please check the link below, excerpts follow: Chart below shows the distribution of reported cases, by sex, by department, from 1984 to June 2011. A study of the social, political and economic context of people living with HIV in Bolivia, was made…
Golden anniversary for USAID
This cartoon appeared in La Razon on November 15, 2011. Where you see two sides of current political party in government. Kudos for USAID’s golden anniversary! Fifty years helping the whole world. In case you didn’t know, USAID/Bolivia funded a great variety of infrastructure across our beautiful Bolivia: did you know about: the road La…
Quick update on Bolivian cases of A H1N1 flu
Los Tiempos reports that the A H1N1 flu as of today has 899 confirmed cases in Bolivia; four fatalities and 3,766 suspected cases. However the flu is not controlled, people still needs to continue with the preventive measures. As compared with last year’s the trend is going down. http://www.lostiempos.com/diario/actualidad/nacional/20111026/confirman-899-casos-de-gripe-ah1n1-y-aseguran-que-el-rebrote-esta-en_147100_304339.html
Bolivia: status of the A H1N1 flu as of Oct 22, 2011
According to Adolfo Zarate, responsible for the Flu Program of the Ministry of Health, to date there are 852 cases of A H1N1 flu with declining infection rates. Zarate stressed out that 150,000 vaccine doses for the type A flu; are confirmed to arrive by next Wednesday. Those doses will be handed in to three risk groups: older than 65 years old;…
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