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						Community-Based Methods for Improving Maternal and Newborn HealthHigh mortality rates for pregnant women and newborns continue to be a major health concern in Africa, with Ethiopia being one of the most affected countries. - Categories
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						Hacking global health: Technology is transforming global health careFor many people in the developed world, healthcare is defined by the ubiquitous scent of disinfectant, the beeping of the cardiac monitors, and other properly sterile equipment. However, in many low- and middle-income countries, such an image is incomplete or nonexistent. - Categories
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						Chagas Disease: Urgent Measures Are NeededGlobal health topics are typically presented in the context of extreme poverty in sub-Saharan Africa or Asia. However, today approximately 100 million people in the Western Hemisphere also live on less than $2 per day. About 10 percent of these "bottom 100 million" currently live with a serious and life-threatening neglected disease known as Chagas disease or American trypanosomiasis. - Categories
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						Life expectancy in Indian increases by 5 yearsThe life expectancy in India has increased by 5 years in last decade due to measures taken by the country. - Categories
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						To Achieve Good Health We Need Good EducationMaternal deaths have fallen from 540,000 a year in 1990 to 287,000 in 2010, and the momentum is there for to save even more lives of mothers and their precious infants. - Categories
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						Achieving Global Health Equality Within a GenerationWhen looking at the broad sweep of human history, people's health status was relatively similar across the world. Death rates for mothers and children were high, life expectancy was short, and health status was poor. This was the universal condition.Only in the past two centuries have we seen the world diverge. - Categories
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						Successful maternal health partnership seeking scaleA year after former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton launched “Saving Mothers, Giving Life,” U.S. and African health leaders believe the inter-agency public-private partnership has proven that surgical and other interventions once thought to be too difficult and expensive can dramatically reduce maternal and infant death in high-mortality settings. - Categories
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						Africa: USAID Announces Award to Prevent, Repair Obstetric FistulaMore health care workers in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia will be able to prevent, detect and treat the disabling condition obstetric fistula thanks to a new project sponsored by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). - Categories
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