News tagged with middle income countries
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Many countries still lack a health research strategy
Although there has been a steady increase in medical research from low- and middle- income countries in recent decades, there are still many countries that lack anything resembling a health research strategy, according to ...
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Apr 24, 2012 |
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Three-year study identifies key interventions to reduce maternal, newborn and child deaths
Some 56 evidence-based interventions will sharply reduce the 358,000 women who still die each year during pregnancy and childbirth and the 7.6 million children who die before the age of 5, according to a massive three-year ...
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Dec 15, 2011 |
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Developing world stoves contribute to two million deaths per year: study
An international effort to replace smoky, inefficient household stoves that people commonly use in lower and middle income countries with clean, affordable, fuel efficient stoves could save nearly 2 million lives each year, ...
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Oct 13, 2011 |
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Vitamin A supplements for children could save 600,000 lives a year
Children in low and middle income countries should be given vitamin A supplements to prevent death and illness, concludes a study published in the British Medical Journal today.
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Aug 26, 2011 |
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Serological antibody tests to detect active tuberculosis are inaccurate and not cost-effective
Despite being widely available for sale in low-and-middle income countries, commercial serological tests used to detect active tuberculosis (by identifying antibodies to the tuberculosis-causing bacterium in a blood sample) ...
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Aug 09, 2011 |
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Alternative methods of smear collection are effective at diagnosing TB
Two studies by a team of researchers led by Luis E. Cuevas and Mohammed Yassin from the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and jointly coordinated with Andrew Ramsay at WHO-TDR Special Programme for Research and Training ...
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Jul 12, 2011 |
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Urgent need to improve quality of outpatient care in public and private sector in poorer countries
The overall poor quality of outpatient healthcare in both the formal private and public sector in low and middle income countries is worrying—especially given the increasing volume of chronic conditions, such as diabetes ...
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Apr 12, 2011 |
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