Tropenmuseum helps new arrivals integrate into Dutch society
Amsterdam City Council has set up a massive project called ‘Town and Language’ that will help foreigners who have
recently arrived in Amsterdam to integrate...
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Record number of
students
Forty-seven students from twenty-two countries are in Amsterdam for the International Course in Health
Development / Master of Public Health (ICHD/MPH) - the highest number of participants in the programme’s forty-four year
history.
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Battling against stigma and discrimination
Learning to live with the physical consequences of leprocy is hard enough. Yet together with this,
leprocy patients have to arm themselves against the prejudice of their fellow citizens, family members or healthcare
workers too.
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Public-private initiative for
safe maternal health worldwide
Private businesses, development organisations and scientists have all joined forces to speed up progress
with Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 5: reducing maternal mortality during childbirth throughout the world and
promoting safe maternal health in this area.
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New distribution centre for
mango exports offers Malian farmers fresh prospects
A distribution centre for exporting mangos was built this year in Mali, close to Bamako the capital,
with expert help from KIT.
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The impact of AIDS on children
The children of people who live with HIV every day or who have died of AIDS suffer immensely as a result
of their parents’ illness or death. How can one prepare these children for a healthy, promising future?
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Special clubs
Last year, the exhibition ‘Clubs and skull-splitters from the Pacific Ocean’ could be seen at the
Tropenmuseum. While preparing for the exhibition, David van Duuren stumbled upon a number of unusual clubs from the
Pacific. Together with Tristan Mostern, he wrote a book about them.
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Quality of Life & Happiness of
People in Japan and the Netherlands
Quality of life is a permanent concern of all people, worldwide. Often quality of life is equated with
material wealth, but affluence and abundance does not always generate happy people...
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