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  2. Kigali Declaration on Neglected Tropical Diseases - Wikipedia

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    The World Health Organization classified 20 major diseases as neglected tropical diseases (NTD), while finer classifications consider several additional conditions. [4] The diseases collectively had affected almost 2 billion people worldwide every year, causing about 200,000 deaths and almost 50 disability adjusted life years annually.

  3. Uganda Scheme - Wikipedia

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    The Uganda Scheme was a proposal by British Colonial Secretary Joseph Chamberlain to create a Jewish homeland in a portion of British East Africa. It was presented at the Sixth World Zionist Congress in Basel in 1903 by Theodor Herzl , the founder of the modern Zionist movement.

  4. Neglected tropical diseases - Wikipedia

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    The plan aimed to intensify control or eliminate certain NTDs in specific regions by 2020, and referred to the NTD "roadmap" milestones from 2012 that included eradication of dracunculiasis by 2015 and of yaws by 2020, elimination of trachoma and lymphatic filariasis as public health problems by 2020, and intensified control of dengue ...

  5. History of the Jews in Uganda - Wikipedia

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    The history of the Jews in Uganda is connected to some local tribes who have converted to Judaism, such as the Abayudaya, down to the twentieth century when Uganda under British control was offered to the Jews of the world as a "Jewish homeland" under the British Uganda Programme known as the "Uganda Plan" and culminating with the troubled relationship between Ugandan leader Idi Amin with ...

  6. Uganda denounces U.S. plan to exclude it from duty-free ... - AOL

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    Uganda on Wednesday criticised a U.S. move to eject it and other African countries from accessing a tariff-free trade programme, saying the action was to punish African countries that are ...

  7. Proposals for a Jewish state - Wikipedia

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    The Uganda Scheme was a plan to give a portion of the East Africa Protectorate to the Jewish people as a homeland. The offer was first made by British Colonial Secretary Joseph Chamberlain to Theodore Herzl 's Zionist group in 1903.

  8. London Declaration on Neglected Tropical Diseases - Wikipedia

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    The London Declaration on Neglected Tropical Diseases was a collaborative disease eradication programme launched on 30 January 2012 in London.It was inspired by the World Health Organization roadmap to eradicate or prevent transmission for neglected tropical diseases by the year 2020. [1]

  9. New Evidence Ties World Bank to Human Rights Abuses in Ethiopia

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    The World Bank says Ethiopian authorities didn’t consult the bank when they developed the resettlement program, and it didn’t learn of the plan until October 2010. In January 2011, the World Bank and other foreign donors wrote the Ethiopian government warning that forced relocation “can impact negatively on the wellbeing and livelihoods ...