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Doctors reap in billions as Cuba’s top export
Cuba is out to boost its top export, an ever-more critical pillar of its economy.
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- Health Care
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- Latin America
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- public health
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Africa: Pepfar Marks 10 Years, 1 Million Healthy Babies
One million babies are alive today because their HIV-infected mothers received medication to prevent them from transmitting the virus to their infants.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- public health
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Let’s set a global drug quality benchmark
The crisis in Indian pharma is a chance to develop a new regulatory path
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- Health Care
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- governance, public health
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Especially grim encephalitis toll feared in India
A mosquito-borne disease that preys on the young and malnourished is sweeping across poverty-riven northern India again this monsoon season in what officials worry could be the deadliest outbreak in nearly a decade.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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Only 1 in 20 washes hands properly
Only one in every twenty people washes their hands properly, a new global survey has found. And South Africans are no exception. Although South African adults are worried about infectious diseases, they still don't wash their hands properly.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Data visualisation aims to change view of global health
By creating a new and innovative way to look at massive amounts of patient data worldwide, one man hopes he can change the way public health crises are managed, as Cynthia Graber reports.
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India signs loan agreement with World Bank for US$ 255 million for National AIDS Control Project-IV
An agreement for loan of US$ 255 million (equivalent) from World Bank for the "National AIDS Control Project (NACP-IV)" was signed here today between India and the World Bank.
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Talking Condoms and Global Health: Firdaus Kharas’ innovative approach to health behavior change
Behavior change is often called the holy grail of global health promotion. Everyone recognizes its promise in preventing illnesses and injuries, yet it is vastly difficult to accomplish - particularly on a global scale. But acclaimed producer/director Firdaus Kharas believes he’s found an effective approach, which he describes in this interview (with video).
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- Health Care
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