ISRAEL TO PROVIDE EYE TREATMENT FOR SUDANESE REFUGEES IN KENYA

Those EEEEvil Jews are at it Again (Atlas Shrugs)

What won't those Zionist aggressors think of next? Killing 'em with kindness. hat tip Josef

Subject: Israel to provide eye treatment for Sudanese refugees in Kenya - June 27, 2007

Jerusalem, 27 June 2007

Israel to provide eye treatment for Sudanese refugees in Kenya

(Communicated by the MFA Spokesman)

MASHAV, the department in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in charge of carrying out Israel's foreign aid policy, will set up a special eye clinic similar to those it has run for many years in various parts of Africa.

Two Israeli eye doctors will be sent by MASHAV on July 2 to the Kakuma camp in Kenya, where dozens of patients will be operated on over a two-week period. The patients will stay at the camp for a short while before and after the operations. The doctors will also provide consultation services and assistance to local doctors. The required equipment was purchased by MASHAV and has already been sent to Kenya.

The Kakuma camp, near the town of Kakuma, is located in Kenya on the road to Sudan, west of Lake Turkana and about 50 kilometers from the Sudanese border. The camp, which has been in existence for 15 years, holds about 75,000 people, mostly Sudanese refugees.

Dr. Yosef Baratz, MASHAV project coordinator in Africa residing in Nairobi, will coordinate the project vis-a-vis the UNHCR and MASHAV headquarters in Israel

SUPER BUG KILLS DOZENS IN ISRAELI HOSPITALS

Super bug kills dozens in hospitals across country (YNet)
Virulent stain of bacteria believed to be cause of death of 120-200 patients in hospitals. Experts explain most of those infected were already suffering from prior medical conditions. Health ministry says outbreak was kept secret to avoid mass panic

A deadly bacterium known as Klebsiella pneumoniae is believed to have killed some 120-200 patients in hospitals across the country. "Between 400 to 500 people have been infected by the bug, and 30 to 40 percent of them have already died. However, it is important to note that most of them were in a serious condition, and some were suffering from prior medical conditions," said Prof. Yehuda Carmeli, the head of the epidemiology unit at the Sourasky Medical Center in Tel Aviv.

According to Carmeli, most of those infected have been hospitalized for over 25 days, and their average age stood at 74-75. The virulent stain of bacteria is resistant to all kinds of antibiotics, and has already spread in many hospitals across Israel.

CIRCUMCISION SHARPLY REDUCES HIV RISK

Studies: Circumcision Reduces HIV Risk (AP)
LONDON (AP) - Scientists say conclusive data shows there is no question circumcision reduces men's chances of catching HIV by up to 60 percent - a finding experts are hailing as a major breakthrough in the fight against AIDS. Now, the question is how to put that fact to work to combat AIDS across Africa.

The findings first were announced in December, when initial results from two major trials - in Kenya and Uganda - showed promising links between circumcision and HIV transmission. However, those trials were deemed so definitive that the tests were halted early.

The full data from the trials, carried out by the United States' National Institutes of Health, were published Friday in The Lancet.

"This is an extraordinary development," said Dr. Kevin de Cock, [ED. INTERESTING NAME FOR THIS TYPE OF RESEARCH] director of the World Health Organization's AIDS department. "Circumcision is the most potent intervention in HIV prevention that has been described."

Circumcision has long been suspected of reducing men's susceptibility to HIV infection because the cells in the foreskin of the penis are especially vulnerable to the virus.

A modeling study done last year projected that in the next decade, male circumcision could prevent 2 million AIDS infections and 300,000 deaths. Last year, 2.8 million people in sub-Saharan Africa became infected with HIV, and 2.1 million people died.

Experts say the breakthrough is a significant one on par with the identification of the virus and the use of lifesaving combination drug therapy.

ISRAELI HOSPITAL TREATS PALESTINIAN FIGHTERS

Israeli Hospital Treats Palestinian Fighters - Joshua Mitnick (Washington Times)
Several wounded Palestinians a day have been arriving at Ashkelon's Barzilai Medical Center from the bitter Palestinian struggle between Hamas and Fatah in Gaza. When Abdel Hamin Odeh, the father of Adel Odeh, a wounded security officer from Abbas' Fatah faction, tells a reporter that he wants "to say thank you to all of the people of Israel," it seems that the center's work is changing at least some hearts and minds. Rafat Shelieh gestured toward his younger brother, Abdallah: "He would have lost a leg. The treatment is a thousand times better here than in Gaza." Most of the wounded Palestinians have come from Fatah, in part because Hamas security forces have set up military positions at Gaza City's main facility, Shifah Hospital. Barzilai's chief medical director, Ron Lobel, says the Israeli hospital has treated 124 patients from Gaza in the past year.