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Part 1: From Local to Global: Unite for Sight’s Expanding Impact
Jennifer Staple-Clark was a sophomore at Yale when she founded Unite for Sight as a student organization in 2000. Her goal was to help underserved people in her local community overcome barriers to eye care. Twelve years later, Unite for Sight has become an acclaimed global NGO, serving 1,500,000 patients and facilitating over 63,000 sight-restoring surgeries. In Part 1 of our Q&A with Staple-Clark, she discusses Unite for Sight’s unique model and remarkable evolution.
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World’s Biggest Health Care System Goes Under the Knife
Ambitious reforms of the Chinese medical system aim to expand infrastructure, cover the poor, and combat chronic diseases.
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New action plan could be a turning point in global mental health
The World Health Organization is attempting to improve the astounding statistics that surround mental healthcare around the world.
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Cancer and the Global Equity Divide: A Call for Action
Caused by an inequity in health, health care and resulting disease, the disparities across the cancer care continuum found between rich and poor countries remain largely unaddressed.
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Aid for vaccines is subsidising Big Pharma, doctors claim
Médecins sans Frontières is concerned that immunization schemes in poor countries are unsustainable, and often unsuitable for hot climates.
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FAO warns of bird flu and other viral global health threats
The world is at risk of major animal disease outbreaks like that seen in the 2006 avian influenza outbreaks unless surveillance and control of these diseases are enhanced, warns the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
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A novel pathway for a mucosal TB vaccine
A new pathway for improving vaccines against tuberculosis has been discovered by microbiologists at the University at Buffalo in collaboration with researchers at other universities, according to a paper in the journal Mucosal Immunology, published by the Nature group.
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Doing Good Business for Better Health: The view from drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline on expanding access
Allan Pamba, director of Public Engagement & Access Initiatives for the Developing Countries Unit of GlaxoSmithKline, talks about what GSK is doing to meet the health care needs of BoP countries without compromising its commercial success.
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