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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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Access to Technology Saves Lives

Kolleen Bouchane | Posted 05.17.2012

Read More: Birmingham, Global Health, Alina Sarag, Tb, Tuberculosis, Technology, London, Xpert, Healthy Living Health News, Tuberculosis Testing, Public Health, Health Technology, Tuberculosis Test, Healthy Living News
Kolleen Bouchane

More people die from TB today than ever before -- 1.4 million people each year, according to the World Health Organization. Part of the reason is that TB is still diagnosed in most parts of the world using a method invented in the late 19th century.

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No One Should Die Of Tuberculosis In The 21st Century

Salmaan Keshavjee | Posted 05.24.2012

Read More: Tb, World Tuberculosis Day, Pediatric Tb, World Health Organization, Tuberculosis, World TB Day, Impact News
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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World TB Day 2012: Ensuring a Treatable Disease Is Actually Treatable

David Greeley | Posted 05.24.2012

Read More: World Tuberculosis Day, Tb, Tuberculosis Treatment, Tuberculosis, Tuberculosis Prevention, World TB Day, Tb Drug Vaccines, 2011, Impact News
David Greeley

Our most daunting global health crisis is a pernicious, wasting disease that can be spread by a simple cough or sneeze and has been infecting humans since 4,000 B.C.

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Bill Gates: The Global Fund is "One of the Most Effective Ways We Invest Our Money"

Kolleen Bouchane | Posted 03.31.2012

Read More: HIV/AIDS, Bill and Melinda Gates, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Davos, Foreign Aid, International Development, Results, Bill Gates, Polio, Tb, Global Economic Forum, Impact News
Kolleen Bouchane

We know we can end AIDS. It was a pretty good year and an absolutely astounding decade.

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Totally Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis

Kolleen Bouchane | Posted 03.24.2012

Read More: Fear, Totally Drug Resistant Tuberculosis, The Global Fund, Mdr-Tb, Tb, Xdr-Tb, Personal Health, What Is Tuberculosis, Tuberculosis Treatment, Tuberculosis, Impact News
Kolleen Bouchane

We need to get ahead of drug-resistant tuberculosis. This means detecting TB early, testing for drug resistance and providing appropriate treatment in both the public and private sectors.

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Got Outrage? We Do, and We Are Ready to Share

Kolleen Bouchane | Posted 01.08.2012

Read More: HIV/AIDS, Mdr-Tb, Union, Tb-Hiv, Tb, International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, Jonathan Smith, Tuberculosis, They Go to Die, Tuberculosis Film, Stop-Tb-Partnership, Impact News
Kolleen Bouchane

I feel outrage everyday. I think of the stories I know about those who have lived with and died from tuberculosis and I feel truly deeply irreparably angry.

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Will PEPFAR HIV Funding Be Flatlined by Budget Battles?

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 11.29.2011

Read More: Obama Care, Uganda, Africa, Pepfar, Homeland, George W. Bush, United Nations, Pepfar-Aids-Funding, Thabo Mbeki, Apartheid, Tb, Senator Richard Luger, Barack Obama, South Africa, Human Rights, Glaxosmithkline, Peter Mugyenyi, Global Health Initiative, Clean Water, Usaid, Kruger Park, Masoyi, Thomas Lantos, Impact News
Georgianne Nienaber

Is Obama neglecting worldwide human rights issues, as critics charge?

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Contagion -- the Stuff of Thrillers?

Kolleen Bouchane | Posted 11.15.2011

Read More: HIV/AIDS, Pepfar, U.S. Congress, Budget, Disease, Global Fund, #Contagion, Malaria, President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, Tb, Tuberculosis, Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Contagion, Impact News
Kolleen Bouchane

It all starts with a cough. A woman covers her mouth and then shakes hands with a man next to her on a plane. He infects 10 others. Everyone gets horr...

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Quarantined On Thanksgiving!

Lea Lane | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hospital Foulups, Tb, Quarantine, Thanksgiving 2010, Home News
Lea Lane

On Thanksgiving four years ago I wound up quarantined in a hospital room the size of a walk-in-closet. The trouble started early on turkey day whe...

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Astoria Characters: The Old-School Sculptor

Nancy Ruhling | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Astoria, Lady Liberty, Cave, Picasso, Opera, Sculptor, Hercules, Airplane, Yerevan Academy of Fine Arts, Begger, Superman, Tb, Michelangelo, Clay, Modern Art Foundry, Mattress, Nancy Ruhling, Armenia, Art History, Communist Party, Macaroni, Russia, Bronze, Wine, Soup, Rafael Petrosyan, Alva Museum Replicas in Long Island City, New York News, Cigar, Leninakan, Ivan the Terrible and His Son, Repin, New York News
Nancy Ruhling

Sculptor Rafael Petrosyan left Armenia nearly four decades ago, but old customs die hard. He's had his morning shot of wine already when I catch up with him.

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Jailing TB patients not remedy for the disease

Joe Amon | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Human Rights, Tb, Africa, Tuberculosis, Prison, Kenya, World News
Joe Amon

This article originally appeared in the September 17, 2010 edition of Kenya's National Star newspaper. Daniel Ng'etich and Patrick Kipng'etich Kirui ...

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New Test: Big Advance In Diagnosing TB

AP | MARILYNN MARCHIONE | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Symptoms, World Health Organization, Fda, Screening, Tuberculosis Symptoms, Tb, Tuberculosis, Bacteria, Healthy Living News

Scientists are reporting a major advance in diagnosing tuberculosis: A new test can reveal in less than two hours, with very high accuracy, whether so...

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The HIV and TB Prison Crisis in Southern Africa

Joe Amon | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: HIV/AIDS, Nelson Mandela, Hiv, Prison, Zambia, Health, International AIDS Conference, Tb, Tuberculosis, South Africa, World News
Joe Amon

In 1988, while Nelson Mandela was in prison, he contracted tuberculosis (TB). TB is common in prisons, with overcrowded cells and poor ventilation fac...

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HIV Behind Bars

Joe Amon | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Human Rights, Hiv, Human Rights Watch, Prison, Zambia, International AIDS Conference, Tb, Aids, World News
Joe Amon

When last measured, HIV prevalence in Zambian prisons was a staggering 27 percent, almost double the rate in the general population.

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Vuvuzela: Going Viral to Save Lives

Kari Stoever | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: HIV/AIDS, South Africa, Time Warner, Global Health, Mdr-Tb, World Cup 2010, Cnn, Soccer, World Bank, Unaids, Xdr-Tb, Tb, Tuberculosis, Fortune Magazine, Fifa, Vuvuzelas, World News
Kari Stoever

The vuvuzela is quickly becoming the world's first viral instrument. I recommend we make it the international instrument of solidarity to prevent deaths from HIV/AIDS and TB.

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Christiaan Van Vuuren, 'The Fully Sick Rapper,' Raises Money For Doctors Without Borders

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Doctors Without Borders, Tb, The Fully Sick Rapper, Christiaan Van Vuuren, Tuberculosis, Medecins Sans Frontieres, Impact News

Christiaan Van Vuuren has spent over 170 days in hospital quarantine with tuberculosis in Australia. In that time cooped up, he has managed to become ...

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How About Some Encouraging News?

Kate Kelly | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Malaria, HIV/AIDS, Healthright International, Tb, Gulf Oil Spill, Levi Strauss & Co., Impact News
Kate Kelly

The world will feel like a better place, and we'll feel less helpless, when the oil leak in the Gulf is finally plugged, but this evening reminded me that we face so many other problems where our efforts can help.

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March 24 Is World Tuberculosis Day

Joe Amon | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: March 24, World Tuberculosis Day, Right to Health, Tb, Human Rights, Human Rights Watch, World News
Joe Amon

One-third of the world's population has been infected. In 2008, there were more than nine million new cases -- about three million more than two decades ago. Why isn't TB going away?

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Funding Cut as Record Rates of Drug-Resistant TB Reported

Joanne Carter | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: TB and Malaria Act, Tb, Lantos-Hyde U.S. Global Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Who Tuberculosis, Who, Tuberculosis, Multidrug Resistant Tuberculosis, Impact News
Joanne Carter

While Senators Obama, Biden, and Clinton all voted for the Lantos-Hyde plan to ramp up the fight against TB, now, they have not prioritized investment commensurate with the scale of devastation of this disease.

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Testing Overseas May Explain Big Drop In TB Cases

AP | MIKE STOBBE | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Disease, Health, Cdc, Tb, TB Testing, Global Health, Tuberculosis, Center for Disease Control, Wellness, Global Health Initiative, Healthy Living News

ATLANTA — An unexpected big drop in new U.S. tuberculosis cases is probably because of stepped up screening and treatment of immigrants before t...

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Drug-Resistant TB Might Be Worsening

AP | MARIA CHENG | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Health, Drugs, Tb, Global Health, Tuberculosis, Drug-Resistant-Tb, Medication, Medicine, Healthy Living News

LONDON — The World Health Organization says it doesn't have enough information to know if it is winning the fight against drug-resistant tubercu...

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TB is Taking Our Children: Is Washington Noticing?

Dr. Robin Wood | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: TV Infection, Tuberculosis in Children, TB in Children, Tb, Tuberculosis Infection, Tuberculosis, Politics News
Dr. Robin Wood

It is in all of our interests to help stem an out-of-control TB epidemic -- from Washington to Cape Town -- and save the lives of children and adults.

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Madonna, Africa and Child Mortality

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hiv, United Nations, Malaria, Thought Leaders, Tb, Global Citizens, Sonia Ehrlich Sachs, Raising Malawi, Jim Luce, U.N. Millennium Development Goals, Respiratory Illness, Earth Institute, African Children, Infant Mortality, Africa, Madonna, Parasites, Malawi, Public Health, Mathew Luce, Parenting, Jeffry Sachs, Haiti, David Banda, Columbia University, Diarrhea, Mercy, Millennium Villages, N.Y.U. Medical School, Orphans International Worldwide, Dried Mopane Worms, World News
Jim Luce

The deaths of African children are all about food, water and cooking stoves. There is usually no public health system in place to address this tragic litany of otherwise very approachable issues.

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