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Zach Carter

Obama's Trade Position Panned By U.N. For Protecting High Drug Prices

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 06.01.2012

Read More: Tpp, Global Health, Ip, United Nations, Public Health, Unaids, Hiv, Free Trade, Oxfam, Obama, Trans-Pacific Partnership, Barack Obama, Doctors Without Borders, Video, Wha, World Health Organization, AIDS/HIV, Ustr, Undp, Trade, U.N., Aids, Vietnam, Un, Wipo, Access to Medicines, Patents, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Two major United Nations organizations warned world leaders on Thursday to avoid restrictive free trade agreements that may threaten pub...

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Did The CIA Ruin Our Chance To Eradicate Polio?

Foreign Policy | Posted 05.31.2012

Read More: India, Polio, Shakil Afridi, World Health Organization, Pakistan, Osama Bin Laden, World News

Last week, a Pakistani doctor was sentenced by his government to three decades in prison for actions that helped the United States kill Osama bin Lade...

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Zach Carter

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

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 05.30.2012

Read More: Ip, Pepfar, United Nations, Generic Drugs, Mitch Daniels, Hiv, Who, Obama, Barack Obama, Developing Nations, Doctors Without Borders, World Health Assembly, Video, Intellectual Property, World Health Organization, AIDS/HIV, U.N., World Intellectual Property Organization, Generics, Prescription Drugs, Aids, Wipo, Un, Patents. Trade Deals, Politics News

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

Read More: Tpp, Poverty, Economy, Drug Companies, Tb, Hiv, Free Trade, Jobs, Obama, Bernie Sanders, Who, Trans-Pacific Partnership, Tuberculosis, Pharma, World Health Assembly, Pharmaceutical Companies, Politics, Doctors Without Borders, Video, Wha, World Health Organization, Geneva, Phrma, Trade, Aids, Msf, Politics News

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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WHO Finds Social Media Indispensable in Managing Global Health Crises

David J. Olson | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: World Health Organization, Citizen Journalism, WHO Iodine Pills, WHO Twitter, Who, Strategic Health Operations Centre, WHO Facebook, WHO Iodine, WHO Social Media, Japan Tsunami, Japan Iodine Pills, Shoc, Japan Iodine, Technology News
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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Maternal Mortality Declines, But Every Mother Still Counts

Erin Thornton | Posted 05.18.2012

Read More: Global Motherhood, Maternal Mortality, World Health Organization, Maternal Mortality Rate, Childbirth, Impact News
Erin Thornton

New data reveals that the number of women dying due to complications in pregnancy and childbirth continues to decrease, but there remains a huge inequity in maternal health that leaves the poorest countries most burdened.

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Good Things Come in Different-Sized Packages

Dr. Orin Levine | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Polio, Expanded Programme on Immunization, Measles, Unicef, Diarrhea, Pneumonia, Ivac, GAVI Alliance, World Health Organization, Vaccines, Project Optimize, Video, Impact News
Dr. Orin Levine

Decisions around vaccine container size and type -- whether single-dose vial, multi-dose container or pre-filled syringe -- have important implications for a variety of stakeholders.

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What Voters Want: A Strong US-UN Relationship

Peter Yeo | Posted 05.03.2012

Read More: Politics, Global Health, World Health Organization, Un Peacekeepers, United Nations, Poll, Peacekeeping, Child Marriage, Women's Rights, Women's Health, World News
Peter Yeo

When 83 percent of polled Republicans, Democrats and Independents are together on an issue, it stands out as more than simply a consensus -- it's a mandate. That's how many voters want the U.S. to maintain an active role in the U.N.

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World Malaria Day: 5 Ways To Fight The Disease

Posted 04.25.2012

Read More: Video, World Health Organization, Mosquitos, Sub-Saharan Africa, Malaria No More, The Global Fund, Africa, Malaria, Nothing but Nets, World Malaria Day, Nets for Life, Slidepollajax, Roll Back Malaria, Impact News

In the time it takes for a malaria-infected mosquito to bite, you could do your part to end the spread of this deadly, but preventable, disease. Ev...

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UN Appeals For $3.2 Billion To Reach Goal Of 'Near-Zero' Malaria Deaths

AP | Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: Video, Malaria Deaths, Ray Chambers, The Global Campaign to Fight Malaria, World Health Organization, Malaria Africa, Africa, Malaria, Roll Back Malaria Partnership, Princess Astrid, World Malaria Day, Impact News

UNITED NATIONS — The global campaign to fight malaria is appealing for $3.2 billion to try to reach the U.N. goal of "near-zero" deaths from the...

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Bloomberg Thinks Breastfeeding Is The Breastest

Posted 04.20.2012

Read More: Bloomberg Breastfeeding, World Health Organization, Mayor Bloomberg, Breastfeeding, Ny News, Michael Bloomberg, Child Friendly Hospital Initiative, New York News, New York City Department of Health, New York News

A new program being pushed by Mayor Bloomberg and the New York City Department of Health will try to convince city moms that breastfeeding is the, ahe...

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Vietnam Seeks Help In Solving Deadly Medical Mystery

AP | Posted 04.20.2012

Read More: U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Who, Vietnam, Cdc, Mystery Illness, World Health Organization, Le Han Phong, World News

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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The Devil in the Malaria Details

David de Ferranti | Posted 04.25.2012

Read More: Bednets, Markets, Poverty, Economics, Malaria, Globalization, Business, World Malaria Day, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, World Health Organization, Prevention, Disease, Global Health, Procurement, Development, Fighting Malaria, Impact News
David de Ferranti

Have you ever had to buy a long-lasting insecticide-treated bed net (LLIN)? Probably not, even if you live in Africa, where nine out of ten malaria-related deaths occur.

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Corporate Profits or Healthy Babies?

Robert Weissman | Posted 04.13.2012

Read More: Nutrition, Health, Corporate Greed, Marketing, Corporate Social Responsibility, Childhood Nutrition, Commercialism, Parenting, World Health Organization, Culture News
Robert Weissman

American society is not sufficiently supportive of breastfeeding, and the everyday realities of many new mothers' lives make exclusive breastfeeding very challenging.

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WHO, Health and American Politics

Michael Hodin | Posted 04.12.2012

Read More: Alzheimer's Disease, Baby Boomers, Peter-Piot, Dementia, Alzheimer's Disease International, World Health Organization, Stephen Dorrell, Dr. Sarah Harper, Economic Crisis, President Obama, Unaids, Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan Medicare, Alzheimer's, Medicare, Fifty News
Michael Hodin

Whoever makes the better sell of his Medicare vision may prove victorious come November.

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What New 'Age-Friendly' Communities Will Be Like

Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Aging, Aging in Place, Baby Boomers, World Health Organization, Aging Population, Aarp, Age-Friendly Cities, Age-Friendly Communities, Pedestrian-Friendly Communities, Affordable Housing, Fifty News

By 2030, nearly 20 percent of the U.S. population will be 65 and older, according to the federal Administration on Aging. Anticipating the challenges ...

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Health and Work in the Age of Aging

Michael Hodin | Posted 04.06.2012

Read More: G-8 Summit, Greek Debt, Aging and Health, World Health Day, World Health Organization, Aging Population, Health, Dr. Sarah Harper, Birth Rates, Obama, Euro, Oxford University, Ageing, Aging, Fifty News
Michael Hodin

As life-spans routinely stretch into the 80s and 90s and as birth rates continue to drop to unprecedented lows, the importance of maintaining health as we age becomes even more crucial.

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The One Gold Medal We Don't Want to Win: U.S. Leads the Way in Breeding Antibiotic-Resistant Disease

Andrew Gunther | Posted 06.02.2012

Read More: Antibiotic Resistance, Antibiotics, Norway, E. Coli, Pink Slime, Lftb, World Health Organization, Olympics, Center for Science in the Public Interest, Natural Resources Defense Council, Union of Concerned Scientists, Public Citizen, Fda, Food Animal Concerns Trust, Growth Promoters, Food News
Andrew Gunther

We use more antibiotics per kilogram of meat produced than any other nation in the world -- and we use 12 times as much as the country using the least, Norway.

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The Wrong Policy Prescription for Pakistan's Vaccine Program

Dr. Orin Levine | Posted 05.26.2012

Read More: Vaccination, Polio, World Health Organization, Immunization, Pakistan, Behavioral Economics, Parents, World News
Dr. Orin Levine

Just because legislating immunization coverage works in the United States doesn't mean it will work in Pakistan. The main reason is that the drivers of under-vaccination in Pakistan and the United States are fundamentally different.

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No One Should Die Of Tuberculosis In The 21st Century

Salmaan Keshavjee | Posted 05.24.2012

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Salmaan Keshavjee

"How unromantic it is to die of tuberculosis in the twenty-first century?"

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World Tuberculosis Day 2012: Stopping Tuberculosis in Our Lifetimes

Susan Blumenthal, M.D. | Posted 03.24.2012

Read More: World Tuberculosis Day, World Health Organization, Tuberculosis, Global Fund, Healthy Living Health News, TB Day, What Is Tuberculosis, Mycobacterium, Tb Symptoms, Tb, Tuberculosis Symptoms, Mycobacterium Tuberculosis, World TB Day, What Is Tb, Healthy Living News
Susan Blumenthal, M.D.

In order to ensure that new tools are developed and today's treatments are provided, governments must prioritize tuberculosis as a public health priority and close the projected gaps in domestic and international funding.

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Getting Clean Water To 780 Million People Living Without It

Richard Greenly | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Clean Water, World Water Day, Hunger, World Vision, World Health Organization, Mozambique, water4, Millennium Development Goals, Water, Wells, Impact-Earth-Day, Green-Earth-Day, Impact News
Richard Greenly

Lito Eduardo, a 12-year-old boy in Mozambique, is among the 40 percent of people in his country who don't have access to clean, safe water. As a resul...

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The Global Search for Education: Water

C. M. Rubin | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: World Water Day, Global Education, Girls' Education, UNICEF Global Chief of Education, Unicef, The Global Search for Education, Children in Poverty, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon, Safe Drinking Water, MDG Global Water Target, Menstrual Hygiene, Water Sanitation and Hygiene Education in Schools, Essential Health Care Program of Philippines Department of Education, C. M. Rubin, Millennium Development Goal for Safe Drinking Water, Ban Ki-Moon, WASH in Schools, Education Reform, World Health Organization, Children's Health, Susan Durston, Education News
C. M. Rubin

World Water Day on March 22 is a day on which all global citizens should focus their attention on the importance of fresh water to sustainable development.

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World Meets U.N. Target For Safe Drinking Water

AP | EDITH M. LEDERER | Posted 03.21.2012

Read More: World Health Organization, Clean Water Goal, Water, Ban Ki-Moon, United Nations, Clean Water, Margaret Chan, U.N. Millennium Development Goals, Anthony Lake, Unicef, Impact News

UNITED NATIONS -- The world's nations achieved a U.N. goal of cutting in half the proportion of people without access to safe drinking water five year...

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Nursing Southern Somalia Through Civil War And Famine

Tommy Standun | Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: Johnson and Johnson, Civil War, Mogadishu, World Health Organization, Tommy Standun, Sos Children's Villages International, Famine, IDP Camps, Africa, Idp, Sos Children's Village, Somalia, Development, Bblog-Globalmotherhood, Community Health, Global Motherhood, Impact News
Tommy Standun

Many organizations have been driven from the country by insecurity, and the provision of supplies is severely restricted as roads are often closed by various militia and military forces. But there is hope as Somali citizens provide assistance to their own.

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