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		<title>Questions on the future financing for global health</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 20:12:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The latest snapshot on global health financing is in. Dr. Chris Murray and colleagues from The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation presented today the findings from IHME’s third annual report on global health financing, titled Financing Global Health 2011: Continued growth as MDG deadline approaches. Yes, the report states the well-known trend that global [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog4globalhealth.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7039854&amp;post=2896&amp;subd=blog4globalhealth&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>UN Agencies Commit to Joint Action – A Potential Game Changer for NCDs?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 16:44:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cmoscetti</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a guest blog by Greg Paton, Policy Manager, NCD Alliance This past December representatives from various UN agencies met in New York to discuss UN wide collaboration on Non-communicable Diseases (NCDs). The release of the meeting’s report last week drew little attention from the global health world. This is understandable given the gauntlet [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog4globalhealth.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7039854&amp;post=2889&amp;subd=blog4globalhealth&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New Event: &#8220;Quality TB Care: Using Smartphone Technology for Data-driven Improvements in Nigeria&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://blog4globalhealth.wordpress.com/2012/01/05/new-event-quality-tb-care-using-smartphone-technology-for-data-driven-improvements-in-nigeria/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 17:07:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cgholliday</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tuesday, Jan 10, 12:30-2:00pm Quality TB Care: Using Smartphone Technology for Data-driven Improvements in Nigeria Using Smartphones to collect TB data has eliminated use of printed forms, minimized human error in data entry, reduced the lag time of availability of data for policymakers and managers,and helped pinpoint ways to improve delivery of care. Presenter: Leah [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog4globalhealth.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7039854&amp;post=2881&amp;subd=blog4globalhealth&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Upcoming Event: “What’s happening to Development Assistance for Health as the MDG deadline approaches?&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://blog4globalhealth.wordpress.com/2011/12/20/upcoming-event-whats-happening-to-development-assistance-for-health-as-the-mdg-deadline-approaches/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 17:36:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cgholliday</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“What’s happening to Development Assistance for Health as the MDG deadline approaches?&#8221; Thursday, January 19, 2012 from 10:30 to noon Global Health Council 1111 19th St. NW Washington, DC 20036 Featuring Dr. Christopher Murray of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation The speakers will analyze current trends in public and private financing of health [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog4globalhealth.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7039854&amp;post=2873&amp;subd=blog4globalhealth&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Faith-based organizations and the power of partnerships</title>
		<link>http://blog4globalhealth.wordpress.com/2011/11/17/faith-based-organizations-and-the-power-of-partnerships/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 19:07:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rachelhampton</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog4globalhealth.wordpress.com/?p=2869</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[“What are the two things that you will find in the most remote areas of the world?” Pernessa C. Seele, Founder and CEO of The Balm in Gilead, asked the audience of the event, Women, HIV and the Faith Community: Bringing the Voices of African Women to Washington, DC. The audience was quizzically silent for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog4globalhealth.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7039854&amp;post=2869&amp;subd=blog4globalhealth&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Coming Soon: Globalization and Health’s Special Issue on Climate Change</title>
		<link>http://blog4globalhealth.wordpress.com/2011/11/10/coming-soon-globalization-and-healths-special-issue-on-climate-change/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 22:29:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rachelhampton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 2012, Globalization and Health will publish a new special issue “Climate Change and Global Health: Implications for Human Health and Health Systems.” This new issue will explore the ability of health systems to respond to potential disasters linked to climate change. Climate change contributes to extreme weather conditions and significant changes in precipitation, which [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog4globalhealth.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7039854&amp;post=2863&amp;subd=blog4globalhealth&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Potential UNEP treaty language could impact vaccines</title>
		<link>http://blog4globalhealth.wordpress.com/2011/09/26/potential-unep-treaty-language-could-impact-vaccines/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 16:53:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rachelhampton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a guest blog by Erin Fry, Government Affairs Officer of PATH. The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is supporting the development of a treaty on mercury which may include language that impacts access to vaccines in poor countries. Thiomersal (which also goes by the name thimerosal) is a key preservative that contains small [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog4globalhealth.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7039854&amp;post=2857&amp;subd=blog4globalhealth&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Turning a corner on protection of health workers and facilities?</title>
		<link>http://blog4globalhealth.wordpress.com/2011/08/10/turning-a-corner-on-protection-of-health-workers-and-facilities-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2011 21:25:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rstewart1</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a guest blog by Leonard Rubenstein, senior scholar at  the Center for Public Health and Human Rights at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health The international media attention to repression in response “Arab Spring,” included reports of  and expressions of outrage about attacks by Bahrain’s security forces on health workers, obstruction [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog4globalhealth.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7039854&amp;post=2843&amp;subd=blog4globalhealth&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>We started! The first child in Sudan to receive a rotavirus vaccine</title>
		<link>http://blog4globalhealth.wordpress.com/2011/08/05/we-started-the-first-child-in-sudan-receives-a-rotavirus-vaccine/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2011 20:15:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>davidjolson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a guest blog by Dr. Amani Abdelmoniem Mustafa, manager of the Expanded Programme on Immunization for Sudan. KHARTOUM, Sudan — The day that we were waiting for arrived. The children of Sudan have long suffered terrible, sometimes deadly, diarrhea caused by rotavirus. Fortunately, there is a vaccine that can save our children from [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog4globalhealth.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7039854&amp;post=2821&amp;subd=blog4globalhealth&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Addressing the isolation of African doctors in rural areas</title>
		<link>http://blog4globalhealth.wordpress.com/2011/08/03/addressing-the-isolation-of-doctors-in-rural-areas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2011 20:53:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>davidjolson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“It&#8217;s about addressing the professional isolation of rural practice and greasing the wheels of the machine so that ultimately rural doctors are happier and can get on with what they&#8217;re trained to do in an environment that works for them.” &#8211; Dr. Tim Wilson  This is a guest blog by Lindsay Harris, Jeanette Strydom and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog4globalhealth.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7039854&amp;post=2809&amp;subd=blog4globalhealth&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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