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Obama Administration Softens 'Shameful' Fight Against Cheap Drugs For Poor Countries

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 05.30.2012

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WASHINGTON -- A change of heart from the Obama administration may pave the way to a groundbreaking global deal to provide lifesaving medications to de...

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Zach Carter

Obama Administration Says 'No' To Global Health Fund For Developing Nations

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 05.25.2012

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WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration has alarmed global health experts by opposing a new international fund that would fight disease in the developi...

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Building American Support for Global Health Spending

Tom Murphy | Posted 05.23.2012

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Tom Murphy

The reality of foreign aid spending is vastly different than its perception. Despite representing a small sliver of the federal budget, foreign aid does a lot of good.

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WHO Finds Social Media Indispensable in Managing Global Health Crises

David J. Olson | Posted 05.21.2012

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David J. Olson

WHO's tweets and Facebook messages had paid off. The salt panic in China dissipated as quickly as it had started. WHO had learned of the problem through social media and had rectified it in the same way.

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Vietnam Seeks Help In Solving Deadly Medical Mystery

AP | Posted 04.20.2012

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HANOI, Vietnam — Vietnam has asked international health experts to help investigate a mystery illness that has killed 19 people and sickened 171...

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Each And Every Suicide Diminishes Us

Lorna Byrne | Posted 04.17.2012

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Lorna Byrne

Each and every suicide in the world diminishes you and me. No matter if you don't know the person, their family, or even if they live on the other side of the world from you

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Soon Your Cigarettes May Be Traced

Reuters | Posted 04.05.2012

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* WHO accord would set up track and tracing system for cigarettes * Smuggling robs states of up to $50 bln in lost taxes annually ...

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Challenges of Juvenile Diabetes in India

Dinkar Jain | Posted 03.19.2012

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Dinkar Jain

While juvenile diabetes has many shared challenges across nations -- patients need to mathematically coordinate exercise, insulin, and diet -- there are a few behaviors that make advising patients with juvenile diabetes in India more challenging

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Children Dying in Congo and Leaders "Launch Cries of Alarm"

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 02.29.2012

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Georgianne Nienaber

There is nothing we can do to stop the murderous rebels; nothing we can do to force the incompetent and corrupt president to order his army to protect the "enfants sans defense;" nothing we can do to provide life-giving medicine.

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WHO: 500,000 Haiti Cholera Cases Likely By Year End

AP | Posted 12.21.2011

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GENEVA — The World Health Organization says the number of cholera cases in Haiti is expected to exceed 500,000 by the end of 2011. The U.N. hea...

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Childhood Vaccination: Introducing A Promising Milestone for Tomorrow's Children

Gro Brundtland | Posted 08.22.2011

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Gro Brundtland

When I became the head of the World Health Organization in 1998, I was dismayed to see the reality of global health up close.

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WHO: Time Running Out To Find E. Coli Source

AP | MARIA CHENG and JUERGEN BAETZ | Posted 08.07.2011

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LONDON — Outside health experts and German lawmakers roundly criticized Germany on Tuesday for a bungled investigation into the world's deadlies...

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WHO: E. Coli Outbreak Caused By New Strain

AP | MARIA CHENG and KIRSTEN GRIESHABER | Posted 08.02.2011

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Maria Cheng and Kristen Grieshaber, Associated Press LONDON -- Scientists on Thursday blamed Europe's worst recorded food-poisoning outbreak on a ...

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Teetering on the Brink of Eradicating a Global Disease

Jan Eliasson | Posted 07.20.2011

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Jan Eliasson

Among the resolutions debated at this week's World Health Assembly in Geneva, is an historic opportunity to finally rid the world of one of its most debilitating diseases: guinea worm.

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How The World Celebrated International Day Against Homophobia

Posted 07.17.2011

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Today, the world made a statement about tolerance. May 17, 2011 marks the 21st annual International Day Against Homophobia (IDAHO), the anniversary of...

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WHO's Real and Urgent Crisis: Its Role in a Changing World

Nandini Oomman | Posted 06.04.2011

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Nandini Oomman

On March 23rd, Richard Horton, Editor, The Lancet, "tweeted" a series of 140 character messages in rapid fire about the World Health Organization (W...

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WHO: Governments Should Raise Alcohol Taxes, Restrict Sales

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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GENEVA — Alcohol abuse is killing 2.5 million people each year and governments must do more to prevent it, the World Health Organization said Friday...

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The State of Union Address President Obama Should Have Given

David Morris | Posted 05.25.2011

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David Morris

This might be the time to face some hard truths. And the hard truth is that inequality is economically as well as socially harmful.

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New Haiti Cholera Warning, Vaccine Questions, and "Squatters" Vulnerable

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 05.25.2011

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Georgianne Nienaber

Residents of some camps are being given enough aid to keep them alive, but with no permanent sanitation and infrastructure, while everyone is vulnerable to cholera. Cholera will be the great equalizer in the "good camp" "bad camp" debate.

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Fighting Cholera While OCHA Says 400,000 At Risk

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 05.25.2011

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Georgianne Nienaber

Cholera Treatment Center in Mirebalais, Haiti. Photo Courtesy Andre Paultre On Monday the Haitian Ministry of Health (MSPP) reported 1,523 deaths ...

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Nuclear Power Ambivalence: the Fears and the Facts

David Ropeik | Posted 05.25.2011

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David Ropeik

Germany's ambivalence about nuclear power, common in many developed countries, is again on display following the decision by Chancellor Merkel and the...

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Polio Vaccine Africa Campaign Announced

Posted 05.25.2011

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The World Health Organization (WHO) will sponsor a massive polio vaccination drive in Africa, the AP reports. The news comes on the heels of outbreaks...

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Five Priorities for the Next GAVI CEO

Dr. Orin Levine | Posted 05.25.2011

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Dr. Orin Levine

The GAVI Alliance has enjoyed 10 remarkable years. It's first CEO, Tore Godal, brought people and institutions together, gave GAVI a strategic v...

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I'm Single-Handedly Preserving the World's Wine Cultures--Any Help Out There?

Stanton Peele | Posted 11.17.2011

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Stanton Peele

Temperance forces in the world are stealing the pleasure and health from use of alcohol, and particularly wine consumption.

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Why Is the World's Most Successful Child Health Intervention Going Begging?

Jimmy Carter | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jimmy Carter

Vaccines have saved the lives of millions of children around the world, and have the potential to save millions more as newer vaccines are developed and introduced. Yet we are at risk of losing many of these gains. Why is this?

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