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General instructions: Take one dose every 12 hours
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Source: Trussell J, Koenig J, Ellertson C, Stewart F.
Preventing unintended pregnancy: the cost- effectiveness of three methods of emergency contraception. American Journal of Public Health 1997;87(6):932-937.
Please note that the FDA has explicitly declared
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The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a 1.4 million US dollars grant to improve the water supply and sanitation sector of the Kathmandu Valley under a private scheme due for completion in 2004. This includes a river diversion from the Melamchi Valley to the Kathmandu Valley, distribution network improvements, construction of a water treatment plant and bulk distribution system and wastewater system improvements. There is a clear consensus that private participation is essential to the development. The Nepal Water Supply Corporation (NWSC) has failed to supply efficient and affordable services to the residents of the Kathmandu Valley. The total cost is estimated to be 1.75 million US dollars. 700,000 dollars will be financed by the government of Japan, $700,000 by the government of Norway and the remaining $350,000 from the Nepal government.
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In observance of Natinal Condom Week, the South African government announced that last year it had distributed only one million subsidized female condoms compared to 220-million free male condoms. However interest in the female condom (FC) is growing. The social marketing campaign for the product was so successful that the Society for Family Health (SFH) ran out of stock in July 2002, with pharmacy sales rising 33% in a year. FC is distributed by more than one experimental programs, some are distributed free and others are sold at half their cost. While the FC gives women a measure of self-control, there is some confusion about the size and shape of the condom. Women complain that the
sheath is big and baggy and looks strange. Young people between 15 and 21 see it as unattractive. But older women in stable relationships are more able to negotiate its use. Most men complain that male condoms inhibit sexual pleasure, but the female condom does not seem to provoke this complaint.
Tens of thousands of Nepal's 23.2 million children die each year from disease while even more work against their will. Poverty and daily violence have made life difficult for Nepalese children, according to a study by Child Workers in Nepal Concerned Centre. Diarrhoea caused by poor drinking water is one of the leading causes of death. 47% suffer from malnutrition. 60,000 children worked as slaves, as of last year, indentured by debt. Last year the government made child slave labor illegal, but for most nothing has changed - 40,000 children remain bonded labourers. 2.6 million children do some kind of work. About 5,000 children live on the streets. 34% of the marriages in Nepal are to children under age 15. About 12,000 women or girls are trafficked out of Nepal each year for prostitution, mostly to India. On the other hand, 90% of Nepal's children are immunised and 80% of them attend school. And the Maoist rebels and the Nepal government agreed to a ceasefire last week, which is expected to result in a reduction of the violence and abductions.