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Whooping cough may be becoming resistant to vaccines
For the first time, American researchers have found evidence that the bacteria that cause whooping cough are becoming resistant to vaccines, a new study shows.
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Quality Medicines for All: The case for more local drug production in Africa
Significant progress has been made in providing treatment to people in Africa suffering from diseases like HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis. Yet an access gap remains. Juergen Reinhardt, of UNIDO, advocates addressing this gap by strengthening Africa’s local pharmaceutical industry.
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India’s new child survival plan
The Indian government plans to engage the private sector and aid community more as part of a strategic approach to reduce child mortality launched today at a national summit on child survival in Chennai.
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‘Tsunami’ of Diseases Waiting to Hit
A tsunami is looming on the horizon and the world is unprepared for it. This one won’t be a massive wall of water but a tidal wave of non-communicable disease – cancer, heart disease, diabetes and chronic respiratory diseases, among others – and experts say the international community needs to act fast to keep it from crashing.
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Global Health Funding Slows as Nations Cut Back on Donations
Global health funding barely grew last year as the U.S. and other nations cut their donations to programs in developing nations, a study found.
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Part 2: From Local to Global: Unite for Sight’s expanding impact
Jennifer Staple-Clark built Unite for Sight from a dorm room-based student group into a world-renowned global non-profit, serving 1,500,000 patients and facilitating over 63,000 sight-restoring surgeries in Ghana, India and Honduras. In Part 2 of our interview, she discusses Unite for Sight’s innovative revenue-generating programs, and how it harnesses its volunteer, research and fundraising efforts to support its mission.
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Diaspora-driven development: how to turn wealth to health in Bangladesh
A large number of Bangladeshi expatriates are unskilled labourers so cash transfers will still dominate the way they contribute to development back home. However, due to high tax on remittances and high money transfer fees, many chose to use informal channels. The Daily Star, a Bangladesh English language broadsheet reported that up to 24% of remittances are brought into the country through informal channels. Reducing tax, as well as transfer fees by organisations such as Western Union could encourage more people to use formal channels and hence increasing government revenues
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TB vaccine trial disappoints
The first tuberculosis (TB) vaccine to be tested for efficacy in infants in more than 40 years has proved ineffective as a TB booster shot, but it may have laid the groundwork for the next phase in TB vaccine research.The world has relied on the Bacille Calmette-Guerin (BCG) vaccine against TB for over 90 years, despite recent controversy over its efficacy. In clinical trials, effectiveness estimates have ranged from 80 percent protection to none at all; the reasons for these differences are not yet understood.
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