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Global health 2035: A world converging within a generation
Prompted by deepening concerns over poverty and global inequality, the U.N. General Assembly in 2000 adopted the Millennium Development Declaration, putting forward a series of goals which were meant to be achieved by 2015. Core issues included improving global health, including reducing child mortality, improving maternal health and combating HIV/AIDS and other diseases.
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- Education, Health Care
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The Power of Partnership: Extraordinary Progress, Lessons Learned & Great Hope for Future in South Africa
South Africa, with support from the United States through the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), provides more than 2.4 million of its people with antiretroviral treatment (ART) - saving countless lives, keeping families together, and increasing South Africa's overall economic productivity.
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- Health Care
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Florence Ajimobi’s ABC: Towards Oyo’s quality, effective basic health care
The cost of basic health care more often than not goes beyond the financial strength of many people and those that can afford such services more often than not find themselves at a loss on how and where to get qualitative attention. In Oyo State, however, this is a thing of the past with the intervention of the Access to Basic medical Care (ABC) foundation, an initiative of the wife of the executive governor of the state, Mrs Florence Ajimobi.
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- Health Care
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- public health
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A Year Your Grandmother Could Love: Crystal ball says in 2014, it’s back to basics like “Wash those hands!”
There will be no small amount of technological innovation in 2014, according to our prognostication, but there will also be a renewed focus on tried-and-true, small steps that could have a huge impact on global health.
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- Education, Health Care
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Kenya’s Health Funding Is Still Not Enough
In Kenya, the allocation of total government expenditure to health has been below 10 per cent since 2002.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Watch The Gates Foundation’s New CEO In Action
Bill and Melinda Gates just announced that they have recruited Susan Desmond-Hellmann, until now the chancellor of the University of California, San Francisco, as the chief executive of their foundation.
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- Education, Health Care
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- public health, vaccines
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Small lifestyle changes ‘lower type 2 diabetes risk’
Modest lifestyle changes in diet and activity by South Asian families improve their chance of losing weight to lower their risk of type 2 diabetes, according to a study.
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- Education, Health Care
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- public health, research
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Best of 2013: Geeks vs. Quacks: How Swasth Health Centers is out-competing informal providers
In India, trained doctors face stiff competition from informal providers, whose services are affordable and popular despite their lack of qualifications. But in Mumbai, Swasth Health Centers is out-competing the quacks, using technology and management savvy to offer superior services at surprisingly low prices. CHMI’s Rose Reis visited them to see how they’re doing it.
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- Health Care
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