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Shared value: USAID’s new global health focus
Dr. Pablos-Mendez joined the USAID leadership team with a vision to shape the Bureau for Global Health’s programmatic efforts to accomplish scalable, sustainable and measurable impact on the lives of people in developing countries as envisioned in President Obama’s Global Health Initiative.
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- Health Care
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- public health
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Medical Care, Aided by the Crowd
Two years ago, Chase Adam, a Peace Corps volunteer in Costa Rica, was riding a bus through a town called Watsi, when a woman got on board asking for money.
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- Health Care
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Assessing private sector support of global health
There is considerable excitement regarding the role that corporations and their foundations are playing in global health.
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- Health Care
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Sierra Leone: Using Technology to Save Lives
The telecommunications industry and International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) have teamed up to use mobile phone technology to save lives in Sierra Leone.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- public health
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Africa: Poverty No Bar to Fighting Deadly Undernutrition
Some of the world’s poorest countries, including two in sub-Saharan Africa, are showing the greatest political commitment to tackling hunger and undernutrition.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- public health
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South Africa: People On Art Have Near Normal Life Expectancies
People living with HIV in South Africa, who access antiretroviral therapy (ART) before their immune systems are severely compromised, have life expectancies close to that of the general population, researchers have found.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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US races to make vaccine against new bird flu – just in case
Less than two weeks after Chinese officials released the genetic sequence of a new type of bird flu, U.S. vaccine experts are well on the way to making a vaccine to protect people against it.
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- Health Care
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Coughing Dragon, Sneezing Elephant: China, India, and Global Health Governance
The recent H7N9 flu scare in China has shown once again that we live in “an epidemiologically interdependent world.”
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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- public health