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Circumcision and celebrities: scaling-up voluntary medical male circumcision
In Zimbabwe, an estimated 1.4 million people are living with HIV, a prevalence of 15 percent, according to UNAIDS estimates from 2012. Yet estimates today show only nine percent of males in Zimbabwe are circumcised – a low number when considering that male circumcision reduces female-to-male transmission of HIV by 60 percent.
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First step taken in upgrading Myanmar’s Reproductive Health Supply Chain System
Myanmar is one step closer to ensuring that women and families throughout the country receive high quality reproductive health services and products thanks to a UNFPA, and in partnership with John Snow Inc. and the Ministry of Health, backed standardized national logistics supply chain system which was announced on Thursday (08 May 2014) in Nay Pyi Taw, the nation’s capital. A total of 26 professionals attended a 7 day intensive training session on how to implement as well as operate the upcoming system.
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‘Analytical approach’ needed to rethink investment in global health
To reduce overall mortality rates, where should global health investments go? It’s more about understanding the specifics that are the root causes of the mortality rather than whether to investment in this or that country, according to Dr. Mark Grabowsky, chief operating officer at the Office of the U.N. Secretary-General's Special Envoy for Financing the Health Millennium Development Goals and for Malaria.
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Nigeria, 9 others responsible for 60% of global maternal deaths
As the 2015 Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 5 target of reducing maternal mortality and achieving universal access to reproductive health draws closer, latest reports by the World Health Organisation (WHO) has ranked Nigeria among the 10 countries in the world that contribute about 60 percent of the world’s maternal mortality burden.
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A ‘post-antibiotic era’ may be approaching, warns WHO
Antimicrobial resistance threatens to make a wide range of drugs for common diseases such as pneumonia, diarrhoea, malaria and tuberculosis increasingly toothless, and poor surveillance networks are hindering response efforts, a UN report finds.
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Apps emerging new health tool
Mobiles may emerge as one of the best instruments to control heart diseases. A study done by a San Francisco-based cardiologist, who was born in Vile Parle and studied at KEM Hospital in Parel, was presented at the ongoing World Congress of Cardiology in Melbourne, showing how this can be done. E-health or the use of healthcare mobile applications could help manage the chronically sick in places where patients were poor or there were very few doctors, said a press release from the Congress.
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Selling Circumcision for HIV Prevention at the Epicenter of the Global Epidemic
When Zimbabwe's most famous poet and musician, Albert Nyathi, decided to get circumcised, everyone had an opinion.
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Cameroon: Vaccinating Against Their Will
The growing number of child deaths from diarrhoea in Cameroon has necessitated the introduction of a new vaccine (RotaTeq) designed to protect babies under five against common types of rotaviruses that cause diarrhoea.
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