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"ACCESS TO LIFE" EXHIBITION In a partnership of art, documentary and advocacy, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and the world-renowned agency Magnum Photos sent eight of the world's best-known photojournalists to document the transformative effects of treatment with antiretroviral drugs against AIDS on more than 30 individuals and their families in nine countries around the world. Their collective artistic interpretation is presented in the photo and multimedia exhibition "Access to Life", which will be open to the public at the Berliner Congress Center, near Alexanderplatz, through July 29, 2010. Click here to view page. |
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Preventing Heart Disease in the Developing World - IOM Report Releases March 22 Rates of cardiovascular disease have risen in developing nations and it now accounts for 30 percent of deaths in these countries. Tackling this global health problem will require input from multiple partners -- members of the business community, health sector, national and local governments, international aid groups, and economic development agencies -- according to Promoting Cardiovascular Health in the Developing World: A Critical Challenge to Achieve Global Health, a new report from the Institute of Medicine. The report lays out challenges facing efforts to control and prevent heart and circulatory diseases worldwide and presents a vision for short- and long-term solutions. Eye on Migration Health Issue 3
This is the first issue of the Eye on Migration Health, for 2010. This is a bi-annual newsletter that focuses on information and analysis of migration health issues in Southern Africa. Direct costs of HIV health care The Health Economics Unit (HEU) has produced a new policy brief: What drives costs during the early and late phases of ART in South Africa?
The research describes the direct health care costs in a South African private-sector HIV/AIDS programme and examines the drivers of the costs of HIV health care around the time of ART initiation and during later phases of ART.
MHRA considers using medicines law to regulate e-cigarettes The UK authorities are contemplating using medicines registration procedures to regulate nicotine-containing products that are not tobacco-based or tobacco products. The links below provide the detailed documents. Estimating the Financial Cost of the NHI Plan This final note is a culmination of the information gained from the research conducted on aspects such as supply constraints, changes in demand and utilisation, issues of rationing, burden of disease, etc. In this note we calculate the overall cost of implementing a plan with the essential features of the current NHI proposal. Financing HIV/Aids in South Africa and role of major donors A Meeting to inform Council for Foreign Relations
January 2010.
The first Millennium Development Goal calls for the eradication of extreme poverty and hunger, and its achievement is crucial for national progress and development. Failing to achieve this goal jeopardizes the achievement of other MDGs, including goals to achieve universal primary education (MDG 2), reduce child mortality (MDG 4) and improve maternal health (MDG 5).
In its fourth year of publication, this report highlights the deficiencies in tuberculosis (TB) research and the critical need for increased funding. The year-on-year data collection continues to create an evidence base with which to analyze the resources available, as well as the gaps in funding needed to meet the Stop TB Partnership and Millennium Development Goals to reduce TB incidence and death by 50% by 2015 relative to 1990 levels and to eliminate TB as a global public health threat by 2050. Next 10 |
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