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A strike by Kenyan nurses points to the country’s failure to manage the devolution of responsibility for health care from national to county governments.
Unhealthy food corporations use various tactics to undermine public health policies aimed at tackling the scourge of non-communicable diseases like diabetes and obesity.
Although hypertension can easily be detected in Africa, up to half of the population are unaware of their condition.
Without leading edge innovations and coordination, Canadians will die from the epidemic of antibiotic resistant infections.
The power to overcoming Ebola was in public awareness by performing simple yet basic infection prevention and control measures like washing hands, isolation and reporting suspected cases.
Kenya’s doctors embarked on a strike for a 100 days to push the government to implement a collective bargaining agreement signed in June 2013.
Cholera is estimated to infect between 3 to 5 million people globally, every year.
The striking doctors in Kenya have vowed not to resume work until the government meets their demands.
Even after 26 children and teachers were killed four years ago today at Sandy Hook, more mass shootings by disturbed white men and boys have occurred. Ignoring this crisis has severe consequences.
Cataract blindness continues to affects tens of millions of people because they cannot access proper care.
Despite ongoing efforts, achieving gender equality struggles because it is ignored or compartmentalised rather than interwoven throughout.
Teen drug abuse is a real problem with 46% of high school students hooked on some addictive substance. Recovery high schools are offering a new model of treatment.
Top contributors
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Tutorial Fellow, School of Medicine, University of Nairobi, University of Nairobi
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Researcher, consultant, lecturing professor, Drake University
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Research Scientist, African Population and Health Research Center
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Head of Education and Human Resources Programs at American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS); Trustee, California Institute of Technology
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Associate professor, Universitas Hasanuddin
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Ophthalmologist at the School of Medicine, Aix-Marseille Université (AMU)
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Distinguished University Professor and Professor of Law, Georgia State University
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Director, Precision Medicine for Africa - A Division of the Wits Health Consortium, University of the Witwatersrand
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Canada Excellence Research Chair in Migration and Integration, Toronto Metropolitan University
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Associate Professor of Family Medicine, University of Michigan
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Researcher in Social Epidemiology, University of York
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Medical Epidemiologist , Washington State University
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Research Manager at MRC/Wits Agincourt Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, University of British Columbia
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Associate Professor of Social Work, The University of Texas at Austin
