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Viewpoint: The World’s New Health Goal Will Need Game-Changing Health Technologies
Ensuring healthy lives and promoting well-being for everyone at any age is a tall order, particularly if the aim is to achieve this by 2030. Yet this is the mandate of the third Sustainable Development Goal (SDG3), one of a set of 17 global goals designed to guide development priorities for the next 15 years.
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- Environment, Health Care
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WHO Declares Liberia Ebola-Free for Second Time
The World Health Organization Thursday declared Liberia Ebola-free for the second time.The declaration for the second time follows an outbreak of the disease in Lower Margibi County that claimed three lives days after the country was first declared Ebola-free by the WHO.
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- Health Care
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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OPINION: Putting an end to global health’s ‘silent killer’
Viral hepatitis is the seventh leading cause of death worldwide. Together, hepatitis B and C cause approximately 80 percent of all liver cancer deaths and kill close to 1.4 million people every year — more than either HIV or tuberculosis.
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- Health Care
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WHO Promotes Water, Sanitation to Battle Neglected Tropical Diseases
Water, sanitation and hygiene are part of a new World Health Organisation strategy to fight neglected tropical diseases which afflict more than 1.5 billion people, the WHO said on Thursday.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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Global Life Expectancy Rises, but People Live Sicker for Longer
People around the world are living longer, but many are also living sicker lives for longer, according to a study of all major diseases and injuries in 188 countries.
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- Health Care
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Fast paper test detects three diseases at once
A quick, paper-based blood test which can simultaneously detect the Ebola, dengue and yellow fever viruses has shown promising results in tests, say researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the United States.
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- Health Care, Technology
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Call for more weaponry against ‘neglected malaria’
The World Health Organization has called for more research on ways to battle malaria caused by the Plasmodium vivax parasite, in the wake of a surge of infections in Western India.
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- Education, Health Care
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- South Asia
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Viewpoint: The Ebola Vaccine We Needed
About 27,000 people in West Africa have been infected with the Ebola virus and more than 11,000 of them have died since the outbreak began last year. Many could have been saved if an effective vaccine had been available. But the world relies on drug companies to create new vaccines and medications, and they have no financial incentive to do so for diseases that mostly affect poor countries. Clearly, the world needs a better mechanism for vaccine development.
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- Health Care
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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