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Most effective way to reduce smoking? Increase price of cigarettes, study says
That is the conclusion of a new study that calls for a tripling of tobacco taxes and a doubling of the price of a pack of cigarettes in much of the world.
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- Education, Health Care
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Kenya’s Health Funding Is Still Not Enough
In Kenya, the allocation of total government expenditure to health has been below 10 per cent since 2002.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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A new dawn: India to be certified polio-free this year
Later this month, India will clock three polio-free years, a milestone that will be officially certified in 2014 by the World Health Organisation (WHO).
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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Over 3.3 million lives saved from malaria since 2000, says WHO
The World Health Organization has news about the international battle against malaria: it appears that humanity is winning.
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- Health Care
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- vaccines
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Watch The Gates Foundation’s New CEO In Action
Bill and Melinda Gates just announced that they have recruited Susan Desmond-Hellmann, until now the chancellor of the University of California, San Francisco, as the chief executive of their foundation.
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- Education, Health Care
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- public health, vaccines
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Small lifestyle changes ‘lower type 2 diabetes risk’
Modest lifestyle changes in diet and activity by South Asian families improve their chance of losing weight to lower their risk of type 2 diabetes, according to a study.
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- Education, Health Care
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- public health, research
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Best of 2013: Geeks vs. Quacks: How Swasth Health Centers is out-competing informal providers
In India, trained doctors face stiff competition from informal providers, whose services are affordable and popular despite their lack of qualifications. But in Mumbai, Swasth Health Centers is out-competing the quacks, using technology and management savvy to offer superior services at surprisingly low prices. CHMI’s Rose Reis visited them to see how they’re doing it.
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- Health Care
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Over 3.3 million lives saved from malaria since 2000, says WHO
Good news for humanity: efforts to battle the potentially deadly mosquito-borne disease appear to be working.
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- Health Care
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