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Global Burden of Disease Estimates: Secret Recipes or Spoiled Ingredients?
Although counting the sick and dead in a country can seem quite dull if not morbid, these facts are critical inputs to designing any national health policy, let alone global priorities in health. Yet 85% of the world’s population still lack systems that register births and deaths along with high-quality data on causes of death.
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Interview with Impact Investment Shujog and Impact Investment Exchange (IIX)
Robert Kraybill, Managing Director at IIX, and Magnus Young, Research Manager at Shujog, join us today to share their insights on the work they do at Shujog and IIX. They also provide their analyses on the trends in the impact investing space.
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- South Asia
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World Allergy Week 2013 Will Focus on the Rising Global Health Problem of Food Allergy: Heaviest Burden is on Children
The World Allergy Organization (WAO) will host its annual World Allergy Week from 8-14 April, 2013, together with its 93 national Member Societies, to address the topic of “Food Allergy – A Rising Global Health Problem,” and its growing burden on children.
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Africa: Advance Market Commitments ‘Promising Solutions’ to Global Health Challenges
An evaluation of the design of the pilot Advance Market Commitment (AMC) for pneumococcal vaccines published today shines a light on the groundbreaking funding mechanism which has already helped vaccinate 13 million children against the world's biggest childhood killer.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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AIDS researchers and global health community ponder a reported cure
AIDS researchers, advocacy organizations and global health officials spent Monday trying to determine whether the report that a baby girl born in Mississippi was cured of the infection is a therapeutic breakthrough or a scientific curiosity.
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Trade-offs in FY14: A case for the Global Fund
Amid an increasingly complex fiscal environment in Washington (i.e. the newly-triggered sequester and the soon-to-expire FY13 continuing resolution), I can’t help but think about the tough trade-offs the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) must be considering as they finalize the 2014 budget request to Congress, expected to be released in mid-March.
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From Andrew Square, taking on the UN for Haiti
Fights against entrenched and powerful forces are sometimes waged from highly improbable places. As a case in point: Brian Concannon is taking on the United Nations from the sanctuary of a quiet former convent in Andrew Square.
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- Latin America
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Energy poverty deprives 1 billion of adequate healthcare, says report
Neglect of energy undermines healthcare and education, leaving patients, teachers and children in the dark.
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