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Entries by Josh Ruxin from 11/2009

Pneumonia: A Bigger Killer than Swine Flu

| Posted 11.02.2009 | Impact
Read More: Rwanda, South Asia, The Millennium Villages Project, The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, The Lancet, Dr. Richard Sezibera, Swine Flu, World Pneumonia Day, The National Institutes of Health, World Health Organization, Sub-Saharan Africa, Pneumonia, Africa, Unicef, Save the Children, H1n1, Bill Frist, Impact News

Worried about H1N1? It's nothing compared to pneumonia, still one of the leading causes of death of children around the world.

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Half the Sky

| Posted 11.09.2009 | Books
Read More: Hunger, Violence Against Women, Poverty, Maternal Health, Maternal Mortality, Rwanda, Books News

Nick Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn's new book should be of particular concern to anyone familiar with Millennium Development Goal number five: reducing maternal mortality.

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Racing to Save the Eyesight of 84 Million People

| Posted 11.19.2009 | World
Read More: Rwanda, Trachoma, Neglected-Tropical-Diseases, Blindness, Mass Drug Administration, World News

Last year, a horrible disease impaired and robbed 8 million people of their vision. Right now, 84 million people are infected with this disease. But there can also be cause for hope.

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Impacting AIDS this World AIDS Day

| Posted 11.27.2009 | Politics
Read More: Rwanda, Anti-Retroviral, Usaid, Global Health, International Development, Pandemic, Unaids, Obama, HIV/AIDS, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, World Health Organization, Africa, Abstinence Education, HIV/AIDS Africa, Condoms, World AIDS Day, Gates Foundation, Politics News

World AIDS Day has become a time to reflect on the daunting challenges we face in the battle against this tenacious killer. Although huge strides hav...

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