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• Living Positively: The Importance of Pediatric HIV Disclosure

  
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  Senior Treatment Officer Bisola Ojikutu, at AIDSTAR-One, discusses the positive, transformative effects disclosing an HIV status have for children living with HIV. Read more >>
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• USAID and Merck Put Skin in the Health Finance Game

  
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  USAID and Merck have joined other donors and companies in a massive ramp-up of an existing public health financing program built to help countries that need health supplies get more bang for their buck. Read more >>
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• 15 thoughts on eliminating neglected tropical diseases

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  We summarise the points made by a live chat panel on how the global health community can work towards eliminating NTDs Dr Paul Emerson, trachoma control programme director, The Carter Centre , Atlanta, USA NTDs arent as remote or obscure as many think: Trachoma and worms used to be endemic to the US and ...
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• Malian Midwife Champions Respectful Care for Pregnant Women and their Families

  
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  Haoua Ba is a perfect example of how the USAID-funded Africa Champions program is helping to prevent the untold suffering of women during one of the most vulnerable but extraordinary times in their lives. Read more >>
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• Saving & Empowering Lives through Clean Cooking Innovation

  
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  The seemingly simple act of cooking a meal is responsible for 4 million deaths each year. Read more >>
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• The Power of Mobile Technology to Save Lives

  
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  Technology and innovation is the way forward for NGOs to impact the global health field, including reducing incidence of malaria, improving maternal and child health, and improving child nutrition. Read more >>
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• Using Technology For STH Control

  
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  The reach of mobile phones into even the poorest and most remote parts of the world has shown these devices to be the tool of choice for civil and social transformation. Read more >>
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• From Alcohol to HIV/AIDS, Anita Raj on How Gender Inequities Affect Maternal Health in India

  
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  “Improving the equity of women, the treatment of women and girls, the value of women and girls in society is a very important means of improving population health,” says Dr. Anita Raj of the University of California, San Diego. Traditional societal expectations of women and girls in India contribute to high ...
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• Adding Vaccines to Intensify the Assault on Malaria

  
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  The international community has made phenomenal progress against malaria, but the gains are fragile. Read more >>
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• The Politics of Poultry

  
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  David Fenley is a research assistant at the National Center for Food Protection and Defense (NCFPD) and student in the University of Minnesota’s Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs. This post first appeared on the NCFPD’s Blog .  At the National Center for Food Protection and Defense  we aim to ...
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• Global Health Author Q&A: Carter Center’s Donald Hopkins

  
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  In a feature for Now@NEJM, we ask the authors of the new Global Health review article series  — all with different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives — the same set of questions. Donald Hopkins, the Carter Center (Credit: The Carter Center/L. Gubb) Answers from Donald R. Hopkins, M.D., M.P.H., ...
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• Jordan JNC Conference: Mental health and stigma, Student nurses aptitude and the MDGs

  
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  There were a great many fascinating talks at the conference in Amman. The following caught my attention: Dr Heyam Dalky on Perception and Coping with Stigma of Mental Illness: Arab Families Perspectives Since I trained in the late 1970s there has been a marked positive change in the social stigma associated with ...
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• Waste not, want not, say global sanitation innovators

  
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  Last week’s C-IDEA global health symposium here at Stanford featured 20 presentations on low-cost ideas for preventing disease in developing nations. As I wrote in an Inside Stanford Medicine article on the event, one of the more clever ideas was “ EZPZ ,” a method for treating latrine waste with alkalizing ...
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• Technologies to keep mothers safe

  
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  This Sunday—Mother’s Day in the United States—will be a day of light hearts and laughter for many. At PATH, we’re dedicated to developing simple, affordable technology to make sure becoming a mother is a time of joy the world over.
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• Improved TB Diagnosis & Treatment: Research and Innovation Urgently Needed to Address Global Epidemic

  
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  In 1882, Dr. Robert Koch discovered Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacteria that causes TB.
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• The promise of MPTs: An integrated approach to women’s health

  
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  In recent years, the global community has intensified its focus on women’s health and rights. This reflects a universal recognition that women and girls are fundamental to the health and well-being of societies worldwide — and that we still have significant challenges to overcome before reaching essential ...
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• REPORT: The U.S Has The Highest First-Day Infant Death Rate In The Industrialized World

  
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  (Credit: March of Dimes) Each year, about one million infants around the world die on the same day they’re born. That figure includes about 11,300 U.S. babies — the highest first-day infant mortality rate of any other country in the industrialized world, according to a new report from Save the Children. In ...
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• What Rights? ‘New York Times’ Discussion of Egypt’s Population Policy Incomplete

  
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  The New York Times had a front-page story on Egypt’s population policy last week; unfortunately it wasn’t a sterling example of how to report on this tricky issue and left out a key part of the story – the important role of family planning in ensuring human rights, especially for women. “ Egypt’s ...
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• Infectious disease course attracts students

  
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  The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) International Infectious Disease and Global Health (IID&GH) Training Program is offering a course that’s designed to enhance graduate and post-doctoral research training. Arguably the most unique feature of the training program is that the major course that is ...
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• Must-Reads from Around the World

  
  The Middle East Blog — Authority: 154
  Bird Flu — The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDCP) has said the current strain of bird flu in China cannot cause a pandemic although there is no guarantee that it will not mutate and lead to a pandemic, reports VOA News. “This particular virus is not going to cause a pandemic because it ...
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