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The mission of the Global Health Working Group is to explore and improve current and emerging states of health and human security worldwide.

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How Climate Change is Increasing Cholera Outbreaks in Northern Europe

Tue, 2012-07-24 22:52 — Kathy Gilbeaux

Rising temperatures: The Baltic Sea represents the 'fastest warming marine eco-system examined so far anywhere on earth'

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  • Vibrio bacteria, which is normally found growing in warm and tropical waters, now thrives in the Baltic Sea

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  • Bacteria strains will multiply as seas warm, predict researchers
  • The bacteria causes illnesses from cholera to gastroenteritis

    dailymail.co.uk - by Claire Bates - July 23, 2012

    Climate change could be driving an increase in illnesses such as cholera and gastroenteritis in northern Europe, scientists have warned.

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    A rise in temperatures in the Baltic Sea has triggered the growth of the water-borne bacteria Vibrio.

    An international team examined sea surface temperature records and satellite data in the Baltic, as well as statistics on Vibrio cases in the region.

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    Pakistan's Escalating Vaccine Tensions

    Sat, 2012-07-21 17:18 — Maeryn Obley

    cfr.org - Laurie Garrett - July 18th, 2012

    Last year the CIA deployed a Pakistani physician to execute a phony hepatitis vaccine campaign in Abbottabad, hoping to extract blood samples from the children living inside a compound, thought to house Osama bin Laden and his family. Because of the vaccine deception, multiple imams and Taliban leaders have declared that vaccines are CIA plots. The ruse may also be responsible for what appears to have been an assassination attempt against a World Health Organization immunization convoy that injured two people on July 17.

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    How Doctors Without Borders is mapping the world’s epidemics

    Thu, 2012-07-19 19:55 — Maeryn Obley

    Cholera cases in MSF facilitiesImage: Cholera cases in MSF facilities

    dailydot.com - David Holmes - March 9th, 2012

    Five years ago, Ivan Gayton would spend months at a time in the African bush with no connection to the outside world except for a satellite phone or a high-frequency radio.

    But today, the head of Doctors Without Borders in Nigeria spends 75 percent of his time on a computer or a cell phone, even when working in rural Africa. And while the sense of adventure may be diminished, Gayton says the new technologies have had an “astonishing” effect on his organization’s effectiveness.

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    Patient Outcomes and Environmental Monitoring System (POEMS)

    Sun, 2012-06-17 23:15 — Kathy Gilbeaux

             

    GHRF, and Nepal and Bhutan affiliated NGOs, along with Ministries of Health and Agriculture are partnering to utilize mobile and information technology tools to warehouse health and environmental data together to allow multi-level assessments and cross-correlation of outcomes to assess health and environmental impact. 

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    LED Research Shines New Light on Ultraviolet Disinfection Technology

    Sun, 2012-06-03 16:24 — Kathy Gilbeaux

    submitted by Lou Elin Dwyer

    medcitynews.com - by Frank Vinluan - May 14, 2012

    LED lighting isn’t just for illuminating rooms and roads. Someday it could be used to sterilize surgical tools or purify water.

    At the right wavelength, ultraviolet light kills microorganisms on surfaces and in water. But the effort to develop new UV disinfection devices that utilize LEDs has been hampered by the semiconductors used to make LEDs.

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    Video - The Atlanta Summit on Sustaining U.S. Leadership in Global Health & Water

    Mon, 2012-05-21 23:32 — Kathy Gilbeaux

    csis.org - May 21, 2012

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    World Health Organization (WHO) - World Health Statistics 2012

    Sun, 2012-05-20 20:00 — Kathy Gilbeaux

     

    World Health Organization (WHO) - who.int

    World Health Statistics 2012 contains WHO’s annual compilation of health-related data for its 194 Member States, and includes a summary of the progress made towards achieving the health-related Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and associated targets.

    This year, it also includes highlight summaries on the topics of noncommunicable diseases, universal health coverage and civil registration coverage.

    CLICK HERE - World Health Statistics 2012

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    Climate Change, Disaster Risk, and the Urban Poor - Cities Building Resilience for a Changing World

    Sun, 2012-05-20 17:14 — Kathy Gilbeaux

    scribd.com/WorldBankPublications - April 2012

    Poor people living in slums are at particularly high risk from the impacts of climate change and natural hazards. They live on the most vulnerable lands within cities, typically areas that are deemed undesirable by others and are thus affordable. Residents are exposed to the impacts of landslides, sea-level rise, flooding, and other hazards.

    Exposure to risk is exacerbated by overcrowded living conditions, lack of adequate infrastructure and services, unsafe housing, inadequate nutrition, and poor health. These conditions can turn a natural hazard or change in climate into a disaster, and result in the loss of basic services, damage or destruction to homes, loss of livelihoods, malnutrition, disease, disability, and loss of life.

    This study analyzes the key challenges facing the urban poor given the risks associated with climate change and disasters, particularly with regard to the delivery of basic services, and identifies strategies and financing opportunities for addressing these risks.

    Several key findings emerge from the study and provide guidance for addressing risk:

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    Africa is Experiencing Some of the Biggest Falls in Child Mortality Ever Seen, Anywhere

    Sun, 2012-05-20 15:18 — Kathy Gilbeaux

     

     

     

     

    economist.com - May 19, 2012

    IT IS, says Gabriel Demombynes, of the World Bank’s Nairobi office, “a tremendous success story that has only barely been recognised”. Michael Clemens of the Centre for Global Development calls it simply “the biggest, best story in development”. It is the huge decline in child mortality now gathering pace across Africa.

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    A Stem-Cell-Based Drug Gets Approval in Canada

    Sat, 2012-05-19 18:44 — Kathy Gilbeaux

    Photo - Prochymal - osiris.com

    submitted by Luis Kun

    The New York Times - by Andrew Pollack - May 17, 2012

    In a boost for the field of regenerative medicine, a small biotechnology company has received regulatory approval in Canada for what it says is the first manufactured drug based on stem cells.

    The company, Osiris Therapeutics of Columbia, Md., said Thursday that Canadian regulators had approved its drug Prochymal, to treat children suffering from graft-versus-host disease, a potentially deadly complication of bone marrow transplantation.

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