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August 20, 2007 ... face health problems including higher rates of disease, STDs, unplanned pregnancies and unsafe abortions. ... for so long, they don’t know if they have a chronic disease like hypertension or diabetes. So on our health ... and long term."[1] Accurately knowing the prevalence of disease makes community-directed interventions more ...

October 1, 2007 ... For example, he completely misunderstands the "Dutch Disease" when he writes the following (p. 102): However - and this is the second obstacle, the Dutch Disease - just as happened in the 1970s, the huge oil ... building a more diversified economy. Currently this Dutch Disease manifests itself in Venezuela through an overvalued ...

May 21, 2007 ... era, in which millions of people were killed by war, disease and slavery, with the support of the Catholic Church. ...

August 11, 2007 Few governments in the world have been victims of devastating campaigns full of hatred. The Venezuelan government, led by President Hugo Chávez, is one of those victims. His enemies have tried everything: Coup d’État, oil strike, flow of capital, plots… After the attack against Fidel Castro, a similar situation has not ever happened in Latin America.

February 2, 2007 ... is plagued by bureaucracy and corruption, the twin-headed disease inherited from the Spanish colonial era. Bureaucrats, ...

March 8, 2007 In Venezuela, after decades of class polarisation, neglect of the needs of the majority, corruption on a massive scale and unbridled bureaucracy, the magnitude of problems that Venezuela’s Bolivarian revolution led by socialist president Hugo Chavez is attempting to tackle is enormous.

May 27, 2007 ... systems, and were focused on curing instead of preventing disease. In poor and rural communities, care was provided by ... by person, family by family, recording the prevalence of disease and issues like lack of housing or clean water. ... Also this screen diagnosed his chronic obstructive lung disease and chronic heart failure. He says that in this ...

September 17, 2007 The constitutional reform project introduced by the Venezuelan President on August 15, 2007 has provoked an unprecedented media frenzy. However, Chávez has sparked hope not only in his own people, who are now inexorable actors in establishing the trajectory of their country; but he is also a source of inspiration for the dispossessed around the globe.

November 17, 2007 The Venezuelan opposition is once again crying about the "terrible repression" the poor rich suffer from the "Chavez regime." Strikingly, they never compare their situation to the pre-Bolivarian period, nor other Latin American countries, nor to the United States, nor to Europe. It's clear why: such a comparison would come out negatively for the opposition.

August 26, 2007 ... is far more concerned about combating poverty, hunger and disease at home and in Latin America than fighting any war. ...

August 21, 2007 ... income is determined to be anti-American.  Does that mean disease, ignorance, hunger and poverty are pro-American? ...

February 9, 2007 On the one hand, Chavez needs political support from indigenous peoples. But he also seeks important hemispheric integration, which could jeopardize this support.

March 22, 2007 ... doctors and health workers are saving lives and preventing disease in 69 countries, many in the most remote and ...

July 8, 2007 ... results of such overvaluation are sometimes called "Dutch disease," from the experience of the Netherlands after the ...

July 25, 2007 ... system gives priority to promoting health and preventing disease, guaranteeing prompt treatment and quality ...