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Warning sign: The news on AIDS isn’t all good
On World AIDS Day, an important question: Is an AIDS-free generation within reach?
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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What It Takes To Cure Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis
Dr. Mel Spigelman, the president of TB Alliance, and answered five common questions about tuberculosis.
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- Health Care
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What It Takes To Cure Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis
We recently chatted with Dr. Mel Spigelman, the president of TB Alliance, and he answered five common questions about tuberculosis. We edited his responses for length and clarity.
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- Health Care
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Baby steps to saving lives
Each year, one in 10 babies around the world will be born prematurely and over a million of those will die. But could measuring the size of a baby's feet help save lives?
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- Health Care
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Study Says Health disparities “could be eliminated in a generation”
Health disparities between rich and poor nations could be banished in a generation by investment in research, vaccines and drugs to combat diseases such as AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis, global health experts said on Tuesday.
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Clean Data for Cleaner Cookstoves: Smartphone app helps improve a life-saving product
Premature deaths from air pollution exceed deaths from malaria and AIDS combined. Indoor cooking contributes to this, but though clean cookstove technology is more than three decades old, slow adoption by consumers means these cookstoves still aren’t in widespread use in the developing world. To fix this problem, some in the industry are changing their focus from technology to people.
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- Health Care, Technology
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A Win-Win for Global Health: How to Combat AIDS and the Global Health Worker Shortage in Rwanda
A program partnering health workers in Rwanda and the U.S. needs to continue.
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- Health Care
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Sterilization Without Electricity: Technology being adapted to make surgery safer in low-resource environments
Worldwide, 1.2 billion people lack access to electricity, and sterilizing medical instruments is currently impossible in the absence of an energy source. That’s why Eniware is building a power-free, low-cost, portable medical instrument sterilization unit.
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- Health Care
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