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Mar 12, 2015
Chilumba Sikombe shares his approach to malaria communication in Zambia
Effective communication between malaria programs and the communities they serve is essential for creating lasting changes. Chilumba Sikombe has taken on this role for MACEPA in Zambia, and shared with me how he fights malaria by sharing knowledge.
Mar 12, 2015
Vaccine Heroes and the Work Ahead
On a recent trip to Mohsand, India – a village of just 1,200 people in Uttar Pradesh – I met Poonam Devi, a community health worker (Asha) and vaccines hero.
Mar 11, 2015
HIV Vaccine Trial To Begin In Zimbabwe, Where Rates Are Among The Highest In The World
A trial of an HIV vaccine will begin in Zimbabwe this year, health officials announced Tuesday. Researchers in the southern African country, which has one of the highest incidences of the deadly virus in the world, say the vaccine to be tested is based on a drug used in Thailand that was found to be at least moderately effective.
Mar 4, 2015
Big data in global health: improving health in low- and middle-income countries
The delivery of health care is a complex endeavour at both individual and population levels. At the clinical level, the tailored provision of care to individuals is guided, in part, by medical history, examination, vital signs and evidence.
Mar 3, 2015
Global health experts call into question sub-Saharan cancer data
Global health experts believe the current data on cancer prevalence, incidence and mortality in sub-Saharan Africa – which determines how billions of pounds of international development money is spent – are weak and could mean vital funds are being deflected from other priorities.
Mar 2, 2015
Moving Africa toward health self-sufficiency
After a storied history of revolutionary defiance toward America — in which Tanzania played host to Angela Davis, Huey Newton and Malcolm X — this country can hardly get enough of the U.S. of A.
Feb 25, 2015
Cholera prevention measures reduce transmission among displaced people in South Sudan
When violence erupted in South Sudan at the end of 2013, tens of thousands of people fleeing the conflict sought refuge in United Nations bases positioned around the country in the hope that peacekeepers stationed there would protect them. The bases were quickly overwhelmed, with families crammed together with little or no access to safe water or sanitation.
Feb 25, 2015
Global harmonisation in vaccine price
Médecins Sans Frontières published the second edition of the report The right shot: bringing down barriers to affordable and adapted vaccines. The report highlighted the lack of a rational pricing system for vaccines that serves all countries and populations, and, as a consequence, private and public health providers struggle to sustain the costs of immunisation campaigns in many settings.
Feb 25, 2015
Sub-Saharan Africans rate their well-being and health care among the lowest in the world
Sub-Saharan Africans rate their own wellbeing, their health and their health-care systems among the lowest in the world, according to a new report published by Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
Feb 23, 2015
Measles death in Germany prompts calls for mandatory vaccinations
A senior German health official has called for mandatory measles vaccinations after an 18-month-old boy died of the disease amid the country’s worst outbreak in more than a decade.