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Game Changer?: The campaign to train one million African health workers – Part 1
With uneven progress and the 2015 deadline approaching, some have already written off the UN’s Millenium Development Goals as unreachable. But the One Million Community Health Workers campaign is making a final push to actually achieve them in health care - in one of the world’s most impoverished regions. The project’s co-chair, Dr. Prabhjot Singh, describes the initiative’s approach (and its risks) in part one of our interview.
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Global Health Threat Seen in Overuse of Antibiotics on Chinese Pig Farms
As Europe continues to recoil at the “horseburger” scandal, focusing minds on the risks in long food-production chains, a new study has found that high use of antibiotics in Chinese pig farms is producing antibiotic-resistant genes that pose “a potential worldwide human health risk.”
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- Asia Pacific
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Vaccinator killings set back Nigerian polio eradication drive
Unknown gunmen on mopeds shot dead 10 polio vaccinators last week in separate attacks on two polio clinics in the northern Nigerian city of Kano, capital of a polio-endemic region where concerted global efforts are being made to stamp out the virus by the end of 2013.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Decentralise malaria diagnosis and treatment in Africa
The most effective way to overcome the key challenge of access is to focus on community health workers – if people can't come to a health facility, take the health facility to people
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Doctors Struggling to Fight ‘Totally Drug-Resistant’ Tuberculosis in South Africa
In a patient's fight against tuberculosis—the bacterial lung disease that kills more people annually than any infectious disease besides HIV— doctors have more than 10 drugs from which to choose. Most of those didn't work for Uvistra Naidoo, a South African doctor who contracted the disease in his clinic. For those who contract the disease now, maybe none of them will.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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An Optimistic Era for Global Infectious Disease Control
The world has an "historic opportunity" to contain and end three of humanity's deadliest scourges by focusing on their "hot zones," according to Mark Dybul, the newly appointed director of the Geneva-based Global Fund to Fight HIV, Tuberculosis, and Malaria.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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UNDP chief calls for ‘permanent’ focus on NCDs
The way U.N. Development Program Administrator Helen Clark sees the future, the fight against noncommunicable diseases can only be won by making sure it is on everyone’s agenda.
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Researchers Work on Developing New HIV Vaccines
Studying infectious diseases has long been primarily the domain of biologists. However, as part of the Ragon Institute, MIT engineers and physical scientists are joining immunologists and physicians in the battle against HIV, which currently infects 34 million people worldwide.
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- Health Care
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