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India battles misconceptions on mental illness
Many Indian villagers blame evil spirits, and stigma still runs deep. As suicides soar, officials focus on training community-based mental health workers.
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Patents making new HIV/AIDS medicines ‘beyond reach’: MSF
New potentially life-saving HIV drugs are “beyond reach” due to restrictive patents, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said Tuesday, even though basic medication for the disease has become cheaper.
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A Feast for the Senses: Global health innovations in sight and sound – Bi-weekly Checkup, 7/5/13
Some of the coolest innovations to cross our radar screen in the past few weeks have involved vision and hearing – whether it’s enhancing them in doctors, or improving them in patients. This Bi-weekly Checkup explores some of the sense-focused innovations that have caught my eye (sorry) because of their potential impact on patients at the base of the pyramid.
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Keeping Up with the Indians: Exploring emerging practices in a health care innovation powerhouse
Extending health services to the 350 million living below the poverty line in India is no easy task. But due to necessity and ingenuity, the country has become a vibrant testing ground for new solutions that help meet the needs of its large, diverse population. In this post from CHMI, Aarthi Rao explores some of the approaches that have made India a powerhouse in health care innovation.
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Environment, education and health need urgent progress, says MDG report
Sub-Saharan Africa and southern Asia lag behind rest of world, with targets on child and maternal deaths, and sanitation significantly off-target
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Is Africa Profiting from Counterfeit Drugs?
…penalties too low to stop crime
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Opinion: An AIDS-free generation is within sight
We've come a long way since my early days as the associate medical director of the AIDS clinic at San Francisco General Hospital in the 1980s and 1990s.By 1990, I had seen over 500 patients die from a disease that we just couldn't treat. As an infectious disease doctor, I was overcome not only by the tragic loss of life, but also by the inability to find the "magic bullet" to help prevent these deaths.
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Comment: The Middle East plague goes global
A scary virus is sweeping Saudi Arabia. Six million religious pilgrims are about to descend on the country from across the world. The result could be disastrous, write Laurie Garrett and Maxine Builder.
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