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A new partnership is bringing books and teaching materials to nurses and health care workers caring for refugees in Africa. The International Council of Nurses (ICN) has been partnering with Merck Sharp and Dohme (MSD) on mobile book libraries, but new support from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has helped expand the program. In March, 50 ICN-MSD Nursing Libraries for Refugee Health were dispatched to Tanzania and Zambia, where more than 700,000 people have been displaced. Plans call for continued expansion of the program over the next five years. At left, nurses in Isolo, Kenya, treat a child for malaria. For more information, visit http://www.icn.ch/PR03_06.htm.

  
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