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Sierra Leone is launching a new health care initiative that offers free medical care to infants up to 5 years and to pregnant mothers.  The program was launched on Sierra Leone’s 49^th anniversary of the country independence from Britain.

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Breast Cancer affects hundreds of thousands of women in the U.S. every year. In 2006, 191,410 women were diagnosed with breast cancer and 40,820 of them died from this disease. Aside from non-melanoma skin cancer, breast cancer is the most common form of cancer in women. Breast cancer is the number one cause of cancer death in Hispanic women. It is the second most common cause of cancer death in white, black, Asian/Pacific Islander, and American Indian/Alaska Native women.