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  • Saving Lives And Changing The Course Of History

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    Saving Lives And Changing The Course Of History

    Just a decade ago, Angola was at a crossroads.  Much of the country’s infrastructure had been destroyed and a half a million people killed in a bloody civil war that had lasted nearly 30 years.  Rates of preventable illness were extremely high and life expectancy had dropped to only 40 years.  Th...

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    March 6, 2015

  • Scaling Up Cervical Cancer Prevention

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    Scaling Up Cervical Cancer Prevention

    To save women from dying of cervical cancer, we must dramatically scale up efforts in cervical cancer prevention.  This will require the full engagement of all sectors, both public and private. We recently met with Dr. Groesbeck Parham, Co-Director of the Cervical Cancer Prevention Program at the...

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    March 6, 2015

  • Skilled Community Workers in Africa Save Mothers and Babies

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    Skilled Community Workers in Africa Save Mothers and Babies

    Sidi Kitzao lay in pain, exhausted, on the floor of her home in a rural area near Malindi, a coastal village in Kenya. She had been in labor for more than 20 hours.  She wondered why this birth was so much more difficult than her previous one.  Maybe it was because her husband had been by her sid...

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    March 6, 2015

  • Saving Lives While Saving Money

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    Saving Lives While Saving Money

    Today, the George W. Bush Institute released its first book in global health, Pharmacy on a Bicycle: Innovative Solutions for Global Health and Poverty. The book is about taking health care to the last mile – sometimes quite literally – to a place that’s accessible, in a way that’s acceptable, an...

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    March 6, 2015

  • Bringing Affordable Health Care to the Global Poor

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    Bringing Affordable Health Care to the Global Poor

    The world is at a crossroads in health care.  Though there have been great advances in global health in the past two decades, millions of people continue to needlessly die due to lack of basic care – just as the 7 million children each year to fail to make it to their fifth birthday.  There are m...

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    March 6, 2015

  • Saving Millions of Lives from AIDS: Honoring PEPFAR on a Day to Remember

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    Saving Millions of Lives from AIDS: Honoring PEPFAR on a Day to Remember

    “Seldom has history offered a greater opportunity to do so much for so many.” President George W. Bush, State of the Union Address, January 28, 2003 This Memorial Day we remembered and celebrated the lives of American men and women who gave the ultimate sacrifice to keep our country safe.  It was...

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    March 6, 2015

  • Pharmacy on a Bicycle

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    Pharmacy on a Bicycle

    Our ability to talk about, and act on, global public health issues is unique today.  This moment is not only a by-product of globalization, it is very much part of the Cold War’s peace dividend. While today international politics inevitably plays a role shaping what governments can, cannot, or ch...

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    March 6, 2015

  • An eco-friendly entrepreneur

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    An eco-friendly entrepreneur

    VIDEO: Sizwe Nzima is an entrepreneur assisting his Khayelitsha community by delivering medicine by bicycle. He is an M&G 200 Young South African. See the video here

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    March 6, 2015

  • Learning from a Barefoot Movement

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    Learning from a Barefoot Movement

    In Rajasthan, India, an extraordinary school teaches rural women and men — many of them illiterate — to become solar engineers, artisans, dentists and doctors in their own villages. It’s called the Barefoot College, and its founder, Bunker Roy, explains how it works.

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    March 6, 2015

  • Thoughts from the field – Commercializing Technology in Developing Countries

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    Thoughts from the field – Commercializing Technology in Developing Countries

    By Marc Epstein. This week, along with twenty MBA students from Rice University, I participated in the National Health Review Conference of the Liberian Ministry of Health and Social Welfare. The students are here in Liberia as part of the course “Commercializing Technology in Developing Countrie...

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    March 6, 2015

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