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ACR Weekly Newsletter Vol. 4, No. 05 (02 February 2005)

TAJIKISTAN: Infant mortality on the rise in north [News]
The infant mortality rate is going up innorthern Tajikistan, health officials say, citing poor socioeconomicconditions in the country. Of the 48,997 births officially registered in the region in 2004...

NEPAL: Focus on the plight of rural people living with HIV/AIDS [Report]
With deep sunk eyes and parched lips,30-year old Maya Rumba stares feebly from her broken bed. "Help me," isall she has the strength to utter. Her skeletal body weakened by severemalnourishment, Rumba...

NEPAL: Focus on children and the insurgency [Report]
About 750 km northwest of the capital Kathmandu, children in the mountainous district of Simikot live in fear that Maoist rebels who have been fighting the government since 1996 will march into their ...

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