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From Chewing Gum To Chocolate: 76 Innovations To Improve Global Health Backed By Gates Foundation

medicalnewstoday.com | Posted 10.26.2009 | Living

Read More: Globalgiving, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Developing World, Developing Countries, Pneumonia, World Health, Malaria, Bill Gates, Global Poverty, Tuberculosis, Living News

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is funding 76 projects using innovative ideas from chewing gum to chocolate to improve global health, and that of ...

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New York Showers Contain High Levels Of Bacteria

New York Times | NICHOLAS WADE | Posted 09.15.2009 | New York

Read More: Lady Windermere's Syndrome, Norman Pace, Lifeguard's Lung, Showers, Shower Heads, Hot Tub Lung, Shower Bacteria, Bacteria, Tuberculosis, New York News

There are some things it is better just not to think about. Like the 10,000 bacteria you inhale with each breath in the average office building. Or th...

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The Unnoticed War Where Millions of Children's Lives are at Stake

Johann Hari | Posted 09.11.2009 | World

Read More: HIV/AIDS, Thailand, Malaria Deaths, Health, Aids, Malaria, Cambodia, Malaria Vaccine, Tuberculosis, Fighting Malaria, Eradicating Malaria, Advocacy, World News

Nobody knows why Cambodia's malaria parasites are such buffed-up hyper-Darwinian winners. Some scientists think it's because the treatments have been used there so long that the parasites have a head-start.

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The Global Fund Seeks Additional Grants from the G8 in Hopes of Helping Millions More

Michel D. Kazatchkine | Posted 08.09.2009 | World

Read More: HIV/AIDS, Foreign Aid, G8, Health, Global Fund, Health Programs, L'Aquila, Malaria, Funding Gap, Tuberculosis, World News

It is the very success of hundreds of health programs supported by the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria that has produced the surge in demand for fresh grants.

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Tuberculosis In Muslim World: A Chance For Cooperation

Huffington Post Contributor | Dr. Frederick Hartman | Posted 07.03.2009 | World

Read More: Obama Egypt Speech, Religion, Obama Egypt, Obama Middle East, Muslim World, Tuberculosis Muslim World, Foreign Affairs, Health, Middle East, Muslims, Tuberculosis, Obama Muslim World, Advocacy, World News

Hartman worked in Afghanistan from 1976 until the Soviet invasion in 1979; he returned in 2004, after the Taliban had been removed from power, and spe...

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The World's Best Investment: The Global Fund

Josh Ruxin | Posted 07.02.2009 | World

Read More: HIV/AIDS, Investing, Economy, Health, Global Fund, Bailouts, Africa, Malaria, Financial Crisis, Tuberculosis, Barack Obama, World News

The Global Fund is facing a funding shortfall of about $2 billion; a paltry sum in view of US financial bailouts, but resources that, if made available, will save millions of lives.

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CHICAGO TB SCARE: Hundreds Of Hospital Patients May Have Been Exposed To Tuberculosis

AP | Posted 05.11.2009 | Chicago

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CHICAGO — Hundreds of patients and staff at three Chicago-area hospitals may have been exposed to tuberculosis by a contagious health care worke...

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Zimbabwe's Poor Healthcare System Causing Humanitarian Crisis

NYCity News Service | Posted 05.08.2009 | World

Read More: Zimbabwe Healthcare, Cholera Outbreak, Morgan Tsvangarai Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe, Foreign Affairs, Cholera Zimbabwe, Malnutrition, Hiv, Anthrax, Tuberculosis, Zimbabwe Cholera, Zimbabwe Cholera Outbreak, HIV/AIDS, Morgan Tsvangarai, Cholera Epidemic, Humanitarian Crisis, Physicians for Human Rights, Cholera, HIV/AIDS Africa, Robert Mugabe, Health Care, Aids Zimbabwe, Advocacy, Healthcare Zimbabwe, Rhodesia, World News

The collapse of Zimbabwe's health system has created a humanitarian crisis where people are already suffering from a crippling hyperinflation and severe food, fuel and currency shortages.

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Killer Tuberculosis Epidemic Threatens The World: UN

McClatchy | Tim Johnson | Posted 05.02.2009 | World

Read More: Tuberculosis Epidemic, Bill Gates, World Health Organization, Bill Gates Tuberculosis, United Nations, Health, Global Health, Tuberculosis, Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis, World News

The world is on the cusp of an explosion of drug-resistant tuberculosis cases that could deluge hospitals and leave physicians fighting a nearly untre...

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Tuberculosis Cases At All-Time Low

Chi-Town Daily News | ALEX PARKER | Posted 04.25.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Tuberculosis, Tuberculosis Cases, Health, Chicago Tb Cases, Chicago-Illinois, Chicago News

New cases of tuberculosis in Chicago have dropped to an all-time low, according to a study released by the Chicago Department of Public Health, with b...

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Tuberculosis Will Take 1000 Years To Eradicate At Current Rate: WHO

AP | BRADLEY BROOKS | Posted 04.24.2009 | World

Read More: Health, Foreign Affairs, Advocacy, Tuberculosis, Who, World Health Organization, World Health, World News

RIO DE JANEIRO — The number of people infected with both tuberculosis and HIV is twice what researchers previously thought, top health officials...

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Passenger, Who Had TB, Flew From Frankfurt To Detroit

AP | Posted 04.15.2009 | Home

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ROMULUS, Mich. — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says a passenger on a Northwest Airlines flight from Frankfurt, Germany, to Detr...

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A New Strategic Consensus on Foreign Assistance Must Begin with Global Health

Carol Peasley | Posted 04.13.2009 | World

Read More: Malaria, HIV/AIDS, Global Health, Tuberculosis, The Global Fund, Global Fund, World News

It is not enough -- and not appropriate -- for international NGOs to be directly providing services. We must simultaneously build local capacity, if not, none of the results will be sustainable.

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The Promise of Public Health

Amy L. Fairchild, Ph.D. and Ronald Bayer, Ph.D. | Posted 02.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama Healthcare, Bush SCHIP Veto, Global Economy, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Children's Health Insurance, George W. Bush, President Obama, Barack Obama Health Care, Health Insurance, Obama Health Care, Global Economic Crisis, Chronic Disease, Chronic Diseases in Children, Asthma, Bush SCHIP, State Children's Health, Schip, Great Depression, New Deal, Michael Bloomberg, Public Health, Bush Veto SCHIP, Tuberculosis, State Children's Health Insurance Program, Barack Obama, New York City, HIV/AIDS, Health, Federal Government, Healthcare Reform, Children's Health, Healthcare, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Politics News

Like the provision of medical care to the ill, an effective health system -- which keeps children and adults from becoming sick in the first place -- depends on both vision and commitment.

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South Africa Battles Deadly New Tuberculosis

GlobalPost.com | Elizabeth Chiles Shelburne | Posted 02.13.2009 | World

Read More: Globalpost, World Health Organization, Health, Mdr-Tb, South Africa Tuberculosis, Kwazulu Natal, Tuberculosis, South Africa, Xdr-Tb, World News

TUGELA FERRY, KwaZulu Natal Province, South Africa -- Two health workers trudge up a steep, rocky hill carrying a blue cooler full of freezer packs ...

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Larry Mellon's Inspiring Mid-Life Crisis

Diana Odasso | Posted 01.28.2009 | World

As I reflect on my holiday experience last year and in light of this year's economic and moral climate, I marvel on the ability of a few to change the lives of many.

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Staggering Gains in the Fight Against AIDS

Michel D. Kazatchkine | Posted 01.04.2009 | Living

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In a world where inequality continues to grow, the recent gains in health form a bridge between the rich and the poor. We need to strengthen this bridge.

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What Can't Be Cut

Josh Ruxin | Posted 11.30.2008 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, Barack Obama, Foreign Policy, 2008 Presidential Race, Foreign Aid, Usaid, Poverty, Pepfar, US Foreign Aid, Global Poor, Tuberculosis, Recession, HIV/AIDS, Foreign Loans, Financial Crisis, Fighting Malaria, The ONE Campaign, Politics News

It's time to send a clear signal to the Obama and McCain camps that issues of the poor world-wide are not disposable because of market downturns.

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Raising Awareness About TB

James Nachtwey | Posted 11.08.2008 | Living

Read More: Tb, Poor, Poverty, Tuberculosis, Health, Disease, Living News

Despite the fact that tuberculosis afflicts a huge number of people - it's not on the radar screen in terms of public awareness.

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The Greatest Lie on Earth

Leslie Griffith | Posted 08.05.2008 | Living

Read More: Ringling Circus, Elephants, Health, Elephants Tuberculosis, Tuberculosis, Circus, Living News

Every animal on the blue unit now performing in LA, then heading to San Diego and on to the San Francisco Bay area has either tested positive for tuberculosis, or has had a full blown case of M-TB.

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The Scourge of the IMF

Robert Weissman | Posted 08.01.2008 | Business

Read More: Imf, Tuberculosis, Health, Market Fundamentalism, Business News

When countries entered IMF programs, TB rates went up. When the programs ended and countries escaped from IMF influence, TB rates went down.

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Battling Tuberculosis In North Korea

The Washington Post | Stephen Glain | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living

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South Korean sources suggest that tuberculosis has affected as much as 5 percent of North Korea's population of 23 million. Linton estimates the Eugen...

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