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Pakistan wastes $3.7 million worth of donated vaccine, official says
Pakistan has wasted $3.7 million worth of vaccines donated to protect children from deadly diseases because officials failed to store them properly, a senior health official told Reuters on Monday.
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Move Over, Doctors—Plumbers Without Borders Are Coming to the Rescue
For Florida plumber Frederick Schilling Jr, the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, which killed at least 45,000 people, was a pivotal moment in his life, transforming how he looks at the world.His view today? “We in America have absolutely no idea how good we have it and how easy our lives are,” he said.
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A Research Agenda for HIV Survivors
Chronic disease among HIV positive people has been overlooked, say K. M. Venkat Narayan and Sten Vermund. Over 35 million people worldwide are living with HIV. Massive global efforts and investments to deliver combination antiretroviral therapy (ART) have transformed a fatal infectious disease into a chronic, treatable disease.
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Press Release: Global Health Partners Begin Building a New Approach to Ensure Equitable Access to Medicines
Global health partners met in Geneva to begin the process of building a new approach to better determine health needs and constraints and addressing them in countries.
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Viewpoint: $7.5 Billion on the Table for Vaccines: Will Leaders Keep Their Word?
What happens when the cameras power down, the microphones are put away, and the jets take off That’s a question many citizens ask themselves when they see their leaders in the headlines, making a fiery speech or a bold pledge from a podium in a faraway city.
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Can Too Many Free and Subsidized Condoms Actually Harm Markets?
In Myanmar, sexual encounters are the most common mode of HIV transmission, causing the epidemic to concentrate among key populations such as female sex workers (FSW) and their male clients (MC), as well as men who have sex with men (MSM). Since 1996, PSI/Myanmar has targeted its condom social marketing program to these groups in order to achieve the greatest impact by preventing the spread of infection.
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Tuberculosis Drug Candidate Begins Clinical Safety Trial
The first clinical safety trial on a tuberculosis drug since 2009 is now under way. The phase I trial of TBA-354 will involve 50 volunteers from the United States, according to the TB Alliance, the not-for-profit product development partnership sponsoring the trial.
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World Trade Organization Least-Developed Countries Request Waiver of Intellectual Property Rights on Pharma Products
This week at the World Trade Organization intellectual property committee meeting, least-developed countries submitted a request to extend a waiver allowing them not to enforce intellectual property rights on pharmaceutical products. The countries have extended the waiver before, but this time they are seeking to make it indefinite, until they are no longer considered LDCs.
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