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Health: Egypt

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Development Gateway Country Overview
(http://www.developmentgateway.org/cg/country-gateways/country.do~country=eg~iso3=EGY)
“ The Development Gateway helps communities, organizations, and individuals build partnerships, share ideas, and work together to reduce poverty.” Search by development projects as well as by country to identify additional web sites and documents.

Egyptian Health Associations (http://www.araboo.com/dir/egypt-health-associations)
Links to Egypt Health associations and institutes

Epidemiology of Female Sexual Castration in Cairo, Egypt (http://www.nocirc.org/symposia/first/badawi.html)
Paper presented at The First International Symposium on Circumcision, Anaheim, California, March 1-2, 1989. Based on a study in which 350 Egyptian women were selected to self report on their recall of their castration.

International Committee of the Red Cross (http://www.icrc.org/eng)
"International Committee of the Red Cross an independent, neutral organization ensuring humanitarian protection and assistance for victims of war and armed violence."

National Center for Infectious Diseases Traveler's Health
(Center for Disease Control and Prevention) (http://www.cdc.gov/travel/nafrica.htm#country)
The US CDC issues health warnings and advisories and related materials for countries around the world.

Population Growth in Egypt: A Continuing Challenge (http://www.rand.org/pubs/issue_papers/IP183/index.html)
An issue paper from the Rand Center for Middle East Public Policy.

United Nations (http://www.un.org)
The official site of the United Nations provides articles, reports, etc. in several languages on all aspects of the initiatives and mission of that organization as well as on the contemporary life, culture, society, international relations, etc. of all the countries and peoples of the world.

United States National Library of Medicine (http://www.nlm.nih.gov)
The official web site of the U.S. National Library of Medicine provides access to their online catalog, medical reports, bibliographies, travel cautions, and a variety of information relating to the medical sciences and situation both in the United States and for countries around the world.

Water Poverty (http://balwois.mpl.ird.fr/balwois/administration/full_paper/ffp-490.pdf)
Discusses the effect that lack of potable water has on the health of Egyptians

World Health Organization (http://www.who.int/countries/egy/en/)
The official site of the WHO offers text in English, French or Spanish on its mission and health initiatives, programs and warnings world wide.

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