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		<title>Women in the World update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Daily Beast has added more material to their section Women in the World.
Here is a video from Liya Kebede: Why Are So Many Mothers Dying?
Supermodel Liya Kebede tells Plum TV about her quest to end the easily preventable deaths of mothers around the world. Plus, Read Kebede&#8217;s article on her journey to philanthropy.

Watch for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.ednahospital.org/2010/03/10/women-in-the-world-update/</link>
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		<title>Edna at Women in the World Summit</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Edna Adan will visit New York City next weekend to participate in the Daily Beast&#8217;s Women in the World Summit and she will appear on one of the panels. 
The following is from Tina Brown, editor of The Daily Beast.


Now, I&#8217;m thrilled to announce The Daily Beast will be producing a compelling live event that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.ednahospital.org/2010/03/07/women-in-the-world-summit/</link>
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		<title>Another Class of Trained Nurses Graduates</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This past Thursday night was a great day &#8211; we held the graduation of the third group of General Registered Nurses to be trained at our hospital.
At first we had planned to hold the ceremony in the open but were pushed indoors by the rains.
The graduation ceremony of the 34 girls and 11 boys was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.ednahospital.org/2010/03/07/somaliland-nurses-graduate/</link>
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		<title>Birth Control in Afghanistan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Encouraging news out of Afghanistan: 

Some mullahs in Afghanistan are distributing condoms. Others are quoting the Quran to encourage longer breaks between births. Health experts say contraception is starting to catch on in a country with the world&#8217;s second highest maternal death rate.
Afghanistan has one of the world&#8217;s highest fertility rates, averaging more than six [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.ednahospital.org/2010/03/04/birth-control-in-afghanistan/</link>
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		<title>Divorced at Age 10</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our friend Nicolas Kristof writes in today&#8217;s New York Times about a child-bride in Yemen &#8211; which is located very near to Somaliland &#8211; who was granted a divorce at the age of ten. She is now a best-selling author! Nujood&#8217;s memoir spent five weeks as the No. 1 best-seller in France. It is being [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.ednahospital.org/2010/03/04/divorced-at-age-10/</link>
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		<title>International anti-FGM Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[February 6 is the International Day Against Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting and a panel was convened by Nicholas Kristof at the conference last week in Davos, Switzerland to discuss the issue: 

An estimated 120 to 140 million women have been subject to this harmful and dangerous practice and 3 million girls continue to be at risk [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.ednahospital.org/2010/02/05/female-genital-mutilation/</link>
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		<title>Breaking a Conspiracy of Silence</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In this review of Half the Sky in the NY Review of Books, Sue Halpern discusses the plight of women in the developing world. 
For Westerners, the words &#8220;gender inequality&#8221; are likely to suggest pay differentials and glass ceilings and old-boy networks. For the women and girls Kristof and WuDunn write about, gender inequality is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.ednahospital.org/2009/12/27/breaking-a-conspiracy-of-silence/</link>
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		<title>Thank You Vancouver!</title>
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We would like to thank the &#8220;Friends of Edna Hospital Society in Vancouver&#8221; for a generous donation of US$1800 they have sent to the Edna Adan Hospital as well as another amount of US$850 they have sent to the Las Anood Hospital through us with instructions that we buy medical supplies for that hospital.
The money [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.ednahospital.org/2009/12/22/vancouver-friends-of-edna-hospital/</link>
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		<title>Decade&#8217;s Most Important Book</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A writer at the Huffington Post has suggested that Nicolas Kristof&#8217;s book Half the Sky should be considered the most important book of the decade. Steve Leveen writes:
But what if we could have known in 1962, the year of its publication, that Silent Spring would contain a message of change necessary to save our very [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.ednahospital.org/2009/12/22/most-important-book-of-the-decade/</link>
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		<title>University of Pretoria awards Medal to Edna Adan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Edna Adan was at the University of Pretoria this past Thursday to accept the Chancellor&#8217;s Medal for her outstanding contribution to humanity, and particularly with regard to helping the under-privileged people of Somaliland to realize their right to health. 
Here is the original article by Saeed Mohamed
Dr. Edna Adan spoke at the university&#8217;s graduation ceremonies [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.ednahospital.org/2009/12/13/medal-to-edna-adan-pretoria/</link>
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