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Stories from the Field: Gates Foundation CEO Jeff Raikes discusses polio, vaccines and family planning in Nigeria and Kenya
Late last year, Gates Foundation CEO Jeff Raikes traveled to Nigeria and Kenya with his wife and a team of colleagues. Raikes discusses his experiences in the field, reporting on progress in the fight to end polio and increase access to family planning, challenges in the cold storage of vaccines, and perspectives from residents of Nairobi’s slums on topics like child health, contraception and HIV.
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U.S. Cuts to Global Health Budget “Mass-scale Malpractice”
Public health workers, activists and policymakers are stepping up a last-minute campaign to highlight the global health impact of historic, sweeping cuts to the U.S. federal budget due to go into effect Friday if Congress doesn’t act.
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What the NHS can learn from innovative healthcare practices abroad
From clinical services to specialised care, there are many models of affordable healthcare.
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The Other NCDs: What’s being done about the global mental health crisis?
Mental illnesses receive far less attention and funding than other non-communicable diseases (NCDs) like diabetes, heart disease and cancer. Yet mental, neurological and substance-abuse disorders already constitute a larger share of the global disease burden than both cancer and heart disease. And major depressive disorder alone will be the number one cause of disability globally by 2030. How is the social sector responding to this crisis?
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Rwanda’s Historic Health Recovery: What the U.S. Might Learn
Over the last decade in Rwanda, deaths from HIV, TB, and malaria dropped by 80 percent, maternal mortality dropped by 60 percent, life expectancy doubled -- all at an average health care cost of $55 per person per year.
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Big Data, Better Global Health
Bill Gates, Margaret Chan, the Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO), and other experts and leaders gathered this month in Geneva for a very important meeting on a very unimportant-sounding subject: global disease estimates.
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PEPFAR at 10: What’s next?
A leading global AIDS program lacks a clear long-term strategy to help countries build the capacity to tackle the epidemic themselves, an independent report prepared for U.S. Congress suggests.
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Rising vaccine prices mean fewer children immunized
Adding more children's vaccines to the recommended package should--in theory--save more lives. But rising prices may actually mean fewer children are vaccinated.
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