As a public health care professional, you confront complex health issues. You protect and serve local, national, and even international communities. You strive to control infectious diseases, educate the public about health and hygiene, minimize environmental hazards, injury, substance abuse, and violence, and provide others with better access to health care. You can use the following tips to become a better professional in your field and to make your career more fulfilling.

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In a global village that is shrinking faster by the day, millions of world citizens are hungry for news about their neighbours.Shared global concerns about peace, health, education, the environment, crime and terror, poverty and a never-ending list of issues, bind us together much more than our differences separate us.

The struggle to find meaning and common solutions to these problems drives the hunger for news that covers real issues.  Five minute sound bite tastes cannot satisfy this global hunger for the sharing of ideas critical to the evolution of all humanity. Christiane Amanpour, CNN’s Chief International Correspondent, is now available to help fill this unsatisfied hunger for knowledge, facts, critical analysis of repercussions and possible solutions.

Beginning the second half of 2009, she will anchor her own prime time international news daily show.

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During the Nationalist Party, or white government, days in South Africa, the only time the country made it into the international newspapers was when apartheid based atrocities and anti-apartheid campaigns were reported. It used to annoy the government immensely as they felt that the good stuff was being overlooked.

President Mbeki, and his apostles, must be feeling the same at this moment. The front page of the Independent in the UK says it all. ‘A President in denial, a nation denied hope’ is the headline. The article is in response to the firing of deputy health minister Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge.

Ms Madlala-Routledge had worked hard to obtain some form of credibility for the government. She had been outspoken about new treatment campaigns to ensure medication was available to infected people and co-authored a five year treatment action plan.

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