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ITPC-MENA
Published: April 11, 2013, 8:24 a.m.·
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Between 9th and 15th april 2013, Global health and HIV activists & groups across the world will join forces to protest against the EU’s dangerous trade agenda, sending Europe a clear message: the attack on the right to health and access to medicines must stop now!
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Published: April 9, 2013, 11:20 p.m.·
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Blessina Amulya Kumar
Published: April 9, 2013, 11:15 p.m.·
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Issues like stigma, low socio-economic status and lack of education are significant barriers in early screening, diagnosis and treatment. And these delays perpetuate the transmission cycle.
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Mantoe Phakathi
Published: April 9, 2013, 10:20 p.m.·
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MBABANE , Apr 9 2013 (IPS) - For more than a decade after 1992, when Swazi gold miner Benson Maseko, 50, fell ill with chest pains and a nagging cough, he did not seek treatment.
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Global Health Innovative Technology Fund
Published: April 9, 2013, 10:10 p.m.·
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The Global Health Innovative Technology Fund (GHIT Fund), the first public-private partnership of its kind in Japan, today announced its official launch. The GHIT Fund has been established to advance the research and development of new medicines, vaccines, and diagnostics to fight infectious diseases in the developing world.
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Kemantha Govender
Published: April 9, 2013, 10:07 p.m.·
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A team at the University of Cape Town has led research to pinpoint the transporter of vitamin B12 in Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacterium that causes tuberculosis (TB).
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David Garmaise
Published: April 9, 2013, 9:59 p.m.·
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TB mortality has decreased significantly since 2000 and treatment success rates have shown steady improvement. More than half of the countries that have received Global Fund support are on track to meet the international targets for case detection, treatment success, and TB disease incidence. However, multi-drug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) remains a critical threat.
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Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
Published: April 9, 2013, 9:53 p.m.·
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BRUSSELS - The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria announced a goal of raising US$15 billion so that it can effectively support countries in fighting these three infectious diseases in the 2014-2016 period.
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Medecins Sans Frontieres
Published: April 9, 2013, 9:31 p.m.·
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Brussels, 9 April, 2013 - As European Commission (EC) pressure mounts on India to rush into signing a free trade agreement (FTA) by mid-April, activists from across Europe mobilised in Brussels today to demand the EC withdraw provisions that will harm people’s access to medicines in India and across the developing world. Civil society organisations have learnt through leaked texts that the EC, in closed-door negotiations, is aggressively pushing for stronger industry control at the expense of public health, threatening millions of lives.
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Gugulethu Nyazema
Published: April 6, 2013, 4:59 p.m.·
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People with diabetes are 2,5 times more likely to develop tuberculosis (TB), according to an international study. The International Diabetes Federation revealed there was a study that showed that people with diabetes are at higher risk of developing TB than those without diabetes. According to the Zimbabwe Diabetes Associations, close to 40 percent of the Zimbabwean population is diabetic.
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