Rx for Survival: A Global Health Challenge
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Making Affordable Drugs in Africa()
November 5, 2005 Richard Harris profiles Ghana's first manufacturer of generic AIDS drugs. It's the brainchild of Yaw Adu Gyamfi, an American-trained Ghanaian who brought together diverse interests to make it happen. The company hopes to produce drugs in Ghana for nations throughout Africa.
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Vietnam Takes Steps to Head Off Flu Pandemic()
November 3, 2005 With intense, daily contact with poultry in cities and villages, Vietnam may be the perfect incubator for the next flu pandemic. But health experts hope they can head off a global outbreak by setting up an early detection system.
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Mix of Traditional, Modern Put Vietnam at High Risk()
November 3, 2005 The world's pandemic flu jitters mostly emanate from here. A look at the unique mix of factors that make bird flu so dangerous in Vietnam.
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Developing Countries See Health Care 'Brain Drain'()
November 3, 2005 At a time when their countries most need them, physicians and nurses from developing countries are recruited in large numbers by Western countries, according to a recent study.
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Health for the Masses: China's 'Barefoot Doctors'()
November 4, 2005 On the eve of its Cultural Revolution, China had few doctors to tend to its largely rural population. Mao Zedong's solution: a force of peasant workers trained in the basics of medicine.
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New Malarial Therapy Reaches Remote Africa()
November 2, 2005 Malaria is the No. 1 killer of children in Africa, and a chronic affliction in adults. As world health organizations prepare to renew a massive antimalarial campaign, a roving band of medics, Doctors Without Borders, brings a state-of-the-art drug therapy to the Niger Delta.
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Fred L. Soper and Brazil's Alien Invasion()
November 2, 2005 In the 1930s, an ambitious young doctor set out to rid Brazil of mosquito that threatened to cripple the continent with malaria. The mosquito's landing in the Americas was billed as more dangerous than a Martian invasion. A look at one of the first global public health collaborations against malaria.
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Parental Fears Snarl Efforts Against Polio()
November 1, 2005 Last March, Indonesia saw its first polio case in 10 years. Now, 300 children have been crippled and 60,000 infected. Before health officials can stamp polio out, they'll have to win over parents distrustful of the vaccine.
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Global AIDS Fund Boosts Health, Economy in Ghana()
October 31, 2005 Funding from wealthy nations has helped Ghana create promising programs to fight HIV/AIDS. It's also led to unexpected economic development -- a new African drug company to produce AIDS and malaria medicines.
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Water Plentiful, But Contaminated in El Salvador()
November 1, 2005 El Salvador gets nearly six feet of rainfall each year, but clean water is in short supply. Contaminated water kills thousands there every year. But simple projects that build deep wells are beginning to succeed where expensive, modern water systems have failed.
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