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11 Billion People by 2100 Will Greatly Impact Global Health
A growing global population highlights the need for family planning resources, healthcare workers, and better access to healthcare.
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- Environment, Health Care
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- public health
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Viewpoint: An Unhealthy Health Card
A high-decibel emphasis on economic growth notwithstanding, a multitude of states continues to do poorly on the indicators of social development, especially health. An unhealthy workforce cannot build a healthy economy. Over the past decade, the cost of treatment has seen a double-digit rise, far outpacing average inflation, in both rural and urban India, according to a recently published National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) report.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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- public health
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Rewriting the Rules for Surgery: ‘Task-shifting’ is one way to help solve the human resource problem in global health
Requiring the designation of “surgeon” as it is traditionally defined as a prerequisite for holding a scalpel in the developing world is simply untenable, given the relentless growth in population, the rapidly changing landscape of illness from acute to chronic, and the increasingly well-documented need for, and value of, essential surgery.
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- Education, Health Care
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OPINION: It’s time to better understand what makes primary health care work
Recent crises — from the earthquake in Nepal to the Ebola epidemic in West Africa — have been wake-up calls: too many primary health care systems are under-resourced and fragmented, leaving countries unprepared to reach everyone with needed health services. This is true when disasters strike, and it’s also true in times of relative calm.
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- Health Care
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Why South Africa’s Health Minister Is So Worried About India Caving in to Big Pharma
A big supplier of cheap lifesaving drugs to developing nations, India admirably balances public health needs with private profits and innovation. But it is under pressure to change this model.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- public health
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Government, Ghana Medical Association Negotiations Break Down
Ghana's health sector is destined for serious crisis this week as attempts to resolve the current strike by public health sector doctors failed to yield any positive results.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Experimental gel partially protects against genital herpes
An experimental vaginal gel containing a drug used to treat the AIDS virus could prevent half of cases of genital herpes, according to a study done in South Africa. Among women who used tenofovir gel, the annual rate of infection with the genital herpes virus, known as herpes simplex virus type 2 or HSV-2, was 10.2 percent versus a rate of 21 percent for women who used a placebo gel.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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New Trust ‘Kuwa True’ Campaign Goes Live
A super-hip campaign brings a condom brand back from the brink in Kenya.
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- Health Care
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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