India: A polio-free world?
Advances against polio made in 2004 were lauded by WHO as “the most important progress ever made towards a polio-free world”. But the success of the global eradication initiative still …
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GLOBAL HEALTH: AN EVERYDAY TRAGEDY OF PREVENTABLE DEATHS
Field reports from Belize, Colombia, Guatemala, Lesotho, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Mexico, Nigeria, Russia, South Africa, and Uganda
Diseases of NeglectEnvironmentGlobal HealthHealthcare in RussiaIndigenous Business RightsIndigenous Health
Health in the Arctic Circle
High levels of toxic contaminants have been recorded in several Arctic regions. But the full health effects of exposure to these chemicals are only just emerging. Meet the scientists studying …
Study Finds Heavy Contamination Across Vast Russian Arctic
The first comprehensive look at persistent toxic substances (PTS) across the Russian Arctic reinforces what studies in other Arctic nations have revealed: that indigenous peoples in this northern swath of …
Diseases of NeglectDrug PoliticsEpidemics & PandemicsGlobal HealthHealthcare in PrisonsHealthcare in RussiaScience
Russia: A Looming AIDS Tragedy
Canadian scientists are helping Russia battle the growing scourge of AIDS LATE ONE AFTERNOON, Vinay Saldanha of Mississauga, Ont., finishes up another day at the Russian Federal AIDS Centre — …
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HIV/AIDS explosion in Russia triggers research boom
With Russia’s HIV infection epidemic now thought to be exploding faster than anywhere else in the world, the hunt for clues about the epidemic’s causes, and how to curb it, …
