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Tropical Diseases

Government Support Is Key to Ending Neglected Tropical Diseases

His Excellency John Kufuor | Posted 03.30.2013 | Impact
Read More: Ntds, Neglected-Tropical-Diseases, Tropical Diseases, Neglected Tropical Diseases, Neglected Diseases, Africa, Big-Push, Impact News
His Excellency John Kufuor

Africa is often the focus of the global agenda, yet across the continent millions of people are also suffering from a little known group of infections called neglected tropical diseases, or NTDs. More than one in six people worldwide are infected by NTDs -- and half that burden is here in Africa.

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1 Billion Suffer From Hidden Tropical Diseases, Says WHO

AP | COLLEEN BARRY | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Tropical Diseases, Tropical Disease, Neglected Tropical Diseases, Tropical Disease Treatment, Health, Healthy Living News

GENEVA — The World Health Organization estimated Thursday that 1 billion of the world's poorest people suffer from neglected tropical diseases s...

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Weekly Pulse: The Pill at 50 and Oklahoma's Extreme Ultrasound Law

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Food and Drug Administration, Merrick Garland, The American Prospect, Women's Media Center, RH Reality Check, Reproductive Rights, Elena Kagan, The Progressive, Pro-Life, Diane Wood, Justice John Paul Stevens, Birth Control Pill, Reproductive Freedom, Tropical Diseases, Birth Control, The Pill, Fda, Reproductive Health, Wellpoint, Anti-Choice, Talking Points Memo, Pro-Choice, Women's Liberation, Center for Reproductive Rights, Politics News
The Media Consortium

by Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger Fifty years ago, the Food and Drug Administration approved the first birth control pill. Needless to...

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32 Cents for AIDS Prevention

Josh Ruxin | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: HIV/AIDS, Tropical Diseases, Neglected Tropical Diseases, HIV in Africa, Hiv, HIV/AIDS Africa, Aids Epidemic in Africa, Schistosomiasis, World News
Josh Ruxin

Schistosomiasis may triple the risk of contracting HIV/AIDS. However, the cost of treating this Neglected Tropical Disease is a mere 32 cents per treatment.

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Six Degrees of Separation: The Anonymous Other

Edward J. Murray | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Fighting-Malaria, Malaria, Bed-Nets, Health Issues in Africa, Tropical-Diseases, World News
Edward J. Murray

People who will always be anonymous to us are suffering and in need, ignored and left alone. It is possible to help them.

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Transition Topic V: Free Lunch, Climate Change and Human Health

Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Environment, Public Health, Tropical Diseases, Cdc, Human Health, Global Warming, Climate Change, Barack Obama 2008, Obama Transition, Green News
Jeff Schweitzer

Industrial pollution is not our only problem. Lest you believe we are isolated from environmental degradations far off in foreign lands, visit Florida.

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