As outlined in the current World Health Report, Health System Financing; The path to universal coverage, three fundamental and interrelated problems restrict…
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General Encouraging developments for universal access to health care
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General Violence against health-care must end: it’s a matter of life and death
“One of the first victims of war is the health-care system itself,” according to Marco Baldan, the chief war surgeon of the…
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General Medical, public health and economic consequences of bad diagnostics for tuberculosis
Guest post by Madhukar Pai, David W. Dowdy and Karen R Steingart, tuberculosis (TB) researchers at McGill University, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School…
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Policy Decision rendered on the Prostitution Pledge
This guest blog is from Nicole F. Masenior and Chris Beyrer, Senior Research Coordinator and Director respectively of the Center for Public…
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Conference news Treatment as prevention: we urgently need policy guidance
The International AIDS Society conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention in Rome has been hailed as a landmark conference for HIV…
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Conference news HIV: Treatment is the new prevention – and prevention works
Prevention is the buzzword at the Sixth International AIDS Society Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention(IAS 2011). Whether its the just-published…
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Conference news The science of outcomes: how far have we come?
UPDATE 1 AUGUST: The COMET website has now launched. Its database lists the outcomes standardisation efforts that are going on across clinical…
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General The business of vaccines
Given the current economic climate, the sight of countries trying to outbid each other in their generosity to pledge money for vaccines…
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Global Health “No Health Without Research” Collection: Minding the Gap Between Research Needs and Research Output
Research output is forever increasing — an average of seventy-five trials, and eleven systematic reviews per day, on the last count, which…
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Policy Dreadful Deauville disappoints on health
Dr Rhona MacDonald, freelance editor, rhonamacdonald@gmail.com The report stating the delivery and results of the latest G8 Commitments on Health and Food…
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Global Health Bringing the Global into Global Health Ethics
Clinical ethics have become far too preoccupied with the individual, autonomy and informed consent, argued Baroness Onora O’Neill at the Nuffield Council…
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Conference news HIFA2015 Conference: lack of access to healthcare information is lethal
Earlier this week I attended the first Conference of the HIFA2015 campaign at the BMA in London. In true reflection of the…