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Ban joins Hispaniola effort against cholera
Ban Ki-moon has announced a new initiative that will support a 10-year effort against cholera in Haiti. This comes amid mounting calls for the United Nations to take responsibility over the spread of the disease in the country.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
- Region
- Latin America
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- public health, sanitation, water
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Nigeria: Global Fund Happy With HIV, TB Treatment in Nigeria
The Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, on Tuesday expressed delight at the level of care and treatment given to persons infected with HIV and tuberculosis in Nigeria.
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- Health Care
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Tanzania free of tetanus in mothers and babies
Dar Essalam —The Tanzanian government yesterday celebrated the introduction of two vaccines to protect children against pneumonia and diarrhea and announced that it has been declared free of maternal and neonatal tetanus (MNT), one of the world’s major causes of deaths in mothers and newborns.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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The Machine that Will Help End TB
Nearly 1.5 million people die from tuberculosis every year, even though most cases can be cured with routine antibiotic treatments. One country’s fight to get the ancient scourge under control has an unlikely hero: a simple diagnostic test.
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- Health Care, Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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In Africa’s malaria fight, a $3.6B funding gap
A global public-private partnership is exploring a number of options to fill a multibillion-dollar funding gap in efforts to fight malaria in Africa.
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- Entrepreneurship, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Bartering vegetables for sanitary pads
Women in rural areas are being convinced of the hygiene benefits of using sanitary pads, now to the extent that “they even barter onions or tomatoes for low-priced pads”, declared A. Muruganantham at the recently concluded TiECon – Chennai 2012.
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- Health Care
- Region
- South Asia
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- public health, sanitation
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Weekly Roundup: AIDS 2012 Conference, Exploring the Financing Debate
The recent AIDS 2012 conference included a line-up of speakers to rival most health causes including former President Clinton, current U.S. Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, World Bank Present Jim Kim, Philanthropist Bill Gates as well as other globally recognizable humanitarians and celebrities. But what I found to be especially interesting and relevant for NextBillion readers was an honest and frank debate on financing in a resource constrained environment for HIV/AIDS.
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- Health Care, NextBillion Originals
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From the Slums in Delhi to the Villages in Takeo: How Operation ASHA Scaled Up Across the Borders
In December 2010, Operation ASHA (OpASHA) opened its first DOTS center in the capital city of Phnom Penh. After encouraging results in India, Cambodia was the first foreign country to test the model of providing DOTS to tuberculosis patients in urban slums and rural communities. The organization arrived in Cambodia with the aim to replicate its model used in India, but it struggled to replicate the success.
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- Entrepreneurship, Health Care
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