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Tuesday, December 1 is the New Investigators in Global Health abstract submission deadline - students and new professionals, submit your abstract now! http://www.globalhealth.org/conference_2
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Global Health Council Global Health Magazine Feature Article of the Day - North American Diseases Go South of the Border
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Patricia Pizarro thought she was a good mother, so she was upset when the pediatrician told her she needed to change how she was raising her son Fernando. She had taken the 12-year-old in for a rash, but the doctor gave her an unexpected diagnosis: the boy was obese and had high blood pressure, and ...
Fark Yaratanlar- Hello everyone! You can watch some inspiring stories from Turkey and share your own with us on the link below. Our latest episode tells the story of a dentist making a difference in the lives of thousands of children!
Sabancı Foundation's ''Turkey's Changemakers'' is a weekly TV program which airs on Turkish national TV. It aims to highlight the efforts of unique individuals who promote change and development in their communities and create a remarkable impact in the lives of others. 'Turkey's Changemakers' on Facebook will consti...tute a great source of inspiration for people who care about the world we live in. We will share inspiring stories from Turkey and seek feedback from our followers from all around the world! You are also most welcome to share your own inspirational stories! Sabancı Foundation's ''Turkey's Changemakers'' will share inspiring stories of changemakers who lack media attention they needed to increase the impact of their work. It will also draw attention to the important work taking place through many channels of media- TV, radio, print and the internet. The Sabanci Foundation's main objective is to advance social and human development in Turkey, with an emphasis on women, youth and persons with disabilities. Therefore, they are supporting this project with the hope that everyone- especially youth- will realize the value of making a difference, to see these individuals as role models and to recognize that they too, can make a difference in other people's lives. As visibility of these initiatives and individuals increase, so will the number of good practices and projects. We are featuring changemakers who made an impact in: -Economic Development -Health -Environment -Education/Learning -Civic Participation -Social Justice ''Turkey's Changemakers'' airs on CNN Türk every sunday at 6.30 PM. Every episode will also be available on our Facebook page and on our website.
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Global Health Council Feature article of the day - Photo Diary of TB, AIDS, and Junkies in the Ukraine
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Today is World COPD Day. See Global Health Magazine's Feature Article of the Day - Why We Should Care about COPD
“Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is a global public health problem of growing concern. Data from the World Health Organization Global Burden of Disease Project1 indicates that COPD is a leading c...ause of death worldwide, surpassed only by heart attack, stroke, and acute lung infections. COPD kills more people than cancer and as many people as HIV/AIDS. Use of tobacco products and - especially in developing countries - exposure to biomass fuels, and fumes from indoor cooking and heating are the reasons for the increased morbidity and mortality from COPD. Another reason for the increased number of people diagnosed with COPD is the worldwide increase in the age of the population." Read more at http://bit.ly/4GxujA.
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Global Health Magazine Feature Article of the Day - Family Planning: The Link to Achieving All Eight MDGs
"Why is there renewed emphasis on family planning after 15 years of relative quiet? Perhaps it is because as 2015 approaches, we've realized we're not on target to achieve the Millennium Development Goals. Perhaps ...we've also finally understood that family planning may indeed be "one of the most cost-effective development investments," as the UN Meeting on Maternal Health declared in Ethiopia last month. Here's my take on why family planning is important to achievement of the MDGs."
Read the full story on http://www.globalhealthmagazine.com/gues
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Global Health Magazine Feature Article of the Day - The Killers We Ignore.
"Americans and other rich country denizens have been hearing the message for years: snub out the smokes, cut out the chips, crawl off the couch, and move your body. But in many low- and middle-income countries, daily lives were consumed with ensu...ring children lived past the age of five and getting through the days’ back breaking labor to feed the family. Now globalization, urbanization and successes in combating infectious disease are bringing the burden of “lifestyle” diseases to health systems that are still struggling to catch up with rich-country levels of vaccine coverage and sanitary standards."
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Family Health International delighted to make available to you a new online information portal featuring work being presented at the International Conference on Family Planning in Kampala, Uganda next week.
We hope this tool serves as a resource for both those attending the meeting, but also for the large majority of y...ou who will be unable to attend.
The portal – available at http://www.fhi.org/Kampala -- will serve as a vehicle to engage those unable to attend the conference in the dialogue taking place onsite.
The portal will also document and communicate the important work being presented over the course of the conference. Powered by FHI, it will also pull together information from PATH, the UNC Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases, the Global Health Council, the Knowledge for Health (K4Health) Project, the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, and others.
Follow along and join the conversation at http://www.fhi.org/Kampala.
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A new online information portal featuring work being presented at the International Conference on Family Planning in Kampala, Uganda.
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Global Health Council Magazine Feature of the Day: AIDS Czar Talks About U.S. Funding, Health Systems and Building Capacity
"But now the fragility of these health systems is what I'm most concerned about it. They are as fragile as the NGO who is involved in the delivery, and that is dependent on continued resources from... us to support them in that effort...."
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Global Health Magazine Feature Story of the Day:
Cancer, Silent But Intense, Threatens Systems
"The worthy efforts in recent years to increase attention on HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and other communicable diseases have helped the world respond more effectively to the threat these diseases pose in low- and middle-i...ncome countries. But at the same time in these countries, a silent pandemic of cancer and other noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) has been spreading and now threatens to overwhelm health systems and undermine social structures..."
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Global Health Magazine Feature Story: Probing Health Ministries.
How the capacities of Health Ministries in developing countries can be improved.
"We have a budget of nearly $11 million, and here we are in the seventh, eighth month of the year, and we've spent just $3 million," he told them. "Something is wrong. There is... money. But how do we spend it? We don't know. The system is broken and we want you to help us.''
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Students and new professionals: submit your abstract for the 2010
International Conference on Global Health. Visit the New Investigators
in Global Health Call for Abstracts to learn eligibility criteria,
deadlines and how to submit.
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The Global Health Council is the world's largest membership alliance dedicated to saving lives by improving health throughout the world. Our Mission is to promote better health around the world by assisting ...
Global Health Council Today is World Pneumonia Day. Pneumonia kills 2 million children under five every year, more than HIV/AIDS and malaria combined. Read the blog on GLOBAL HEALTH magazine at http://bit.ly/3mIQZJ
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Pneumonia kills more children under five than malaria and HIV/AIDS combined.
