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Opinion: Mr. Trump’s ‘Gag Rule’ Will Harm Global Health
With a single memorandum, President Trump may well have made it harder for health workers around the world to fight cancer, H.I.V., Zika and Ebola. The memorandum, signed on Monday, reinstates and expands a policy barring health organizations abroad, many of which provide an array of services, from receiving federal funds if they even talk to women about abortion as a method of family planning.
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- global health, HIV/AIDS, public health, Women
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Only 1% of R&D Funds Spent for HIV, Tuberculosis and Malaria: WHO
Investments in health research and development (R&D) are poorly aligned with global public health needs, the World Health Organisation said, highlighting that merely 1% of the total funding on health R&D was allocated towards neglected diseases like HIV , tuberculosis and malaria which account for more than 12.5% of the global disease burden.
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- Health Care
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Tragedy Would Unfold If Trump Cancels Bush’s AIDS Program
In 2003, in a move that has been described as his greatest legacy, George W. Bush created a program called PEPFAR—the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief. At the time, more than 20 million people in sub-Saharan Africa were living with AIDS, but only 50,000 had access to antiretroviral drugs that manage the disease and prevent its spread. Now, thanks to PEPFAR, 11.5 million people are on those drugs. For good reason, it has been variously described as a “globally transformative lifeline,” “one of the best government programs in American history,” and something “for all Americans to be proud of.”
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Health-e News: DIY test for HIV comes to a pharmacy near you
It’s as simple and easy as a home pregnancy test. HEALTH-E NEWS writer Amy Green went through the process of self-testing for HIV.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- HIV/AIDS, public health
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Expanding Access to HIV Self-Testing
PSI just launched the report “Expanding Access to HIV Self-Testing: A Market Development Approach.” This report is the result of the exciting work PSI is doing to understand and develop the HIV self-testing (HIVST) market.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- global health, health care, HIV/AIDS
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Opinion: Global health is good business — Trump should get in the prosperity
As President-elect Trump considers submitting a fiscal year 2018 budget request to Congress, scores of government funding issues will be intensely debated. America’s investment in global health is one area that should stand outside the political fray.
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- Health Care, Investing
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- North America
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Bill and Melinda Gates are now backing a tiny implantable drug pump designed to prevent HIV infection
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is investing $140 million to help Intarcia Therapeutics, a Boston-based biopharmaceutical company, develop a tiny implantable drug pump.
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- Health Care
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Mobile Technology Takes Fight Against HIV in Lesotho to the People
Maboe Ntsime remembers well the ordeal she used to go through to receive the regular treatment she and her six-year-old son, Motsamai, depend on as people living with HIV.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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