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14 Nov 2009
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Cancer patients share a bed in the female ward of Tanzania's cancer institute in the capital Dar es Salaam November 11, 2009. Of the 500,000 women worldwide who are diagnosed with cervical cancer every year, 80 percent are in the developing world and 71,000 of them are in Africa, according to the African Organisation for Research and Training in Cancer. Picture taken November 11, 2009. To match Feature TANZANIA-CANCER/ REUTERS/Katrina Manson (TANZANIA HEALTH SOCIETY)
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Women plant mangrove trees along the Jakarta bay November 21, 2009. They will attempt to plant nine million mangrove trees over the next few months, as part of a community service ...




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