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It’s Time to WASH Up: Three lessons for developing effective water, sanitation and hygiene interventions
The lack of access to safe sanitation and clean water holds back social and economic development through negative impacts on health, education and livelihoods. Research shows the situation can be improved through interventions that place an emphasis on the end beneficiary and leverage local private-public expertise in design and delivery.
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- Agriculture, Education, Health Care
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Guinea: Ebola death toll reaches 70
At least 70 people are reported to have died from Ebola hemorrhagic fever in Guinea, according to a statement from the West African nation's health ministry.
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- Health Care
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Congress budget pact good for global health but NIH cuts threaten US innovations
While a ceasefire in Washington's budget wars has restored funding for a range of programs targeting global health threats like AIDS and tuberculosis (TB), the simultaneous underfunding of the world's biggest sponsor of global health research and development (R&D) puts future progress at risk, warns a new report from a coalition of nonprofit groups focused on advancing innovation to save lives. The Global Health Technologies Coalition (GHTC) released their annual policy report today at a Capitol Hill briefing.
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- Education, Health Care
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Sahel meningitis outbreaks linked to wind and dust levels, claim scientists
Scientists may soon be able to forecast disease outbreaks in sub-Saharan African's "meningitis belt" using weather data. The forecasts could be used to plan early vaccination drives aimed at preventing or limiting casualties.
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- Health Care
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The Benefits of Public-Private Partnerships in Global Health
If countries are healthier and more prosperous, then we all benefit. After all, global health means economic health. This is one reason why many governments in wealthier countries have helped fund disease prevention in developing countries, far outside their borders. It’s the right thing to do, but it’s also smart policy.
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- Health Care
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Ebola Outbreak in Guinea May Spread to Liberia
An outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus is believed to have killed at least 59 people in Guinea and may already have spread to neighboring Liberia, health officials said Monday.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Alarming spread of drug-resistant TB threatens global health
The medical aid organization Medecins Sans Frontieres/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has published a briefing paper about the alarming spread of drug-resistant tuberculosis, which they refer to as the "biggest threat to global health you've never heard of."
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Health in Urban Slums Depends on Better Local Data
Data collection in urban areas should also be interdisciplinary; involving epidemiologists, toxicologists, urban planners and environmental scientists among other experts, according to Sotiris Vardoulakis, air pollution and climate change group leader at the UK government agency Public Health England.
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- Health Care