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Signs Ebola Spreads in Sex Prompt a CDC Warning
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention revised its guidelines on Ebola transmission on Sunday night, urging survivors to abstain from all forms of sex or use condoms every time “until more information becomes available,” rather than three months as previously recommended.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Basic Surgeries Can Avert Deaths in Developing Nations
Basic surgeries such as delivering babies via caesarean section are some of the most cost-effective health measures in developing countries, potentially averting 1.5 million deaths each year.
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- Health Care
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Missoula Author’s Book Details Big Data Initiative on Global Health
What if you had a map that told you what sickened, killed or affected the health of every person across the world? And how would you make it?
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- Health Care
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Why Water Is Key to Beating Poverty
Extreme poverty is one of humanity's grave injustices. Across the world, more than 1 billion people live on less than $1.50 a day for all their needs -- food, housing, medicine, water, sanitation, everything. What's more astonishing is that 748 million people around the world do not have access to clean water. And 2.5 billion people do not have access to basic sanitation -- that's one out of every three individuals on the planet. Think about that for a second.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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Hospitals As Debtor Prisons
In low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs), systematic research regarding the prevalence and personal consequences of patients who are unable to pay their medical bills has been scarce. However, news headlines frequently tell a simple story of detention—eg, “Kenyan mothers too poor to pay for treatment locked up in hospital”. Similar reports are found in Burundi, Ghana, India, Liberia, Nigeria, the Philippines, and Zimbabwe.
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- Health Care
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Clean Cookstoves Could Change the Lives of Millions in Nepal
When 26-year-old Laxmi married into the Archaya household in Chhaimale village, Pharping, south of Nepal’s capital Kathmandu, she didn’t think she would be spending half the day in the kitchen inhaling smoke from the stove.
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- Environment, Health Care
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- South Asia
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The Condom With the Most Studs in the World
Is there such thing as a perfect condom? The type of condom that’s effective, yet comfortable? One that adds excitement instead of interrupting the heat-of-the-moment?
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- Health Care
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New Ways of Delivering Healthcare
One of the biggest barriers to realising the national agenda of "healthcare for all" is tackling the existent complex, disorganised and expensive system of healthcare.
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- Health Care, Technology
- Region
- South Asia
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