Sentences with phrase «global health community»

This staple of Southeast Asian culinary heritage and herbal medicine has become the most requested sweetener in global health communities as a nutritious, sustainable, satisfying sweetener.

Nearly 100 years later, the threat of another influenza pandemic looms large as the scientific and global health communities find ways to prepare for, and battle, future outbreaks.

The global health community and a coalition of public - private initiatives has successfully begun taming the scourge, with a 21 % decrease in its global incidence and 29 % drop in mortality rate between 2010 and 2015; still, there were 212 million malaria cases worldwide and nearly 430,000 deaths from the disease in 2015, according to the latest World Health Organization (WHO) figures.

«The Code was passed in 1981 by the global health community.

«This guideline is unique in offering cervical cancer vaccination recommendations that can be adapted to different resource levels and we expect it to have a major impact on the global health community.»

The threat has been completely neglected, marginalized, and ignored by the global health community and by policymakers, according to pediatrician Anthony Costello, director of University College London's Institute for Global Health and lead author of the report.

The global health community was stunned last August when polio resurfaced in Borno after the country had gone 2 years without detecting a case.

Wiktor says that it will be a missed opportunity if the global health community does not work out how to get the drugs to patients.

While the global health community jumps into action when outbreaks in humans occur, if the outbreak is stopped it does not mean that the danger has fully subsided because the reservoirs for the viruses may be distributed elsewhere among animals and geography.

With a growing consensus in the global health community that Hepatitis C (HCV) could be eliminated, a new report from the O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University highlights a key missing element needed to achieving complete eliminationâ $ «adequate surveillance and monitoringâ $ «and explains how modest investments would improve lives and save money.

Such a discrepancy exists because for the last three decades the global health community — governments, international organisations and aid agencies — have used just one or two «tracer» vaccines to measure immunisation coverage, usually the third dose of DTP or sometimes the first dose of measles.

In the global health community, Lange is remembered as a scientist who didn't just study problems but also tried to solve them.

It was going to take more than epidemiology to persuade members of the global health community to think about mental illnesses.

Through the MDG effort, we have learned that substantial progress can be achieved but is not guaranteed, that good - quality data are crucial for tracking of progress, and that long - term targets are useful not only for planning and coordination, but also for rallying countries and the global health community.»

««By reinforcing the global health community's commitment to sharing research data and information, we can accelerate the development of new solutions to tackle infectious diseases, cut maternal and child mortality, and reduce malnutrition in the world's poorest places,» wrote Trevor Mundel, president of the foundation's Global Health Division, on the group's website on 20 November.»

But implementation of policies is not enough; countries, and the global health community, need to collect timely, reliable, and detailed information on the effect of those policies, particularly among vulnerable populations and those being directly targeted by the tobacco industry.

«So it is gratifying to see our global health community with our Haitian colleagues rallying to the cause and providing the many insights we need to not just eliminate cholera but to conquer a wide range of water - borne diseases.»

We encourage the global health community to take actions that will evaluate both long - and short - term safety, as well as the efficacy of botanical products in widespread use.»

Every March 24, on World TB Day, the global health community recognizes the work of Robert Koch, who announced on that date in 1882 his discovery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacteria that causes TB.

The risks they face are complex, but a lack of quality HIV research specifically addressing male and transgender sex workers means that there are substantial gaps in understanding of how the HIV epidemic affects them, and they remain underserved by the global health community.

They drafted a set of proposals, which WHO is expected to publish next week, that calls on the global health community to invest in better data - collecting efforts on the ground, something that everyone agrees is desperately needed.

According Professor Mills, «As the global health community plans for sustainable health goals for the future, it will be crucial to leverage existing infrastructure and existing community partnerships to improve health outcomes.

Yet I know that the global health community and all of those who continue to combat this disease — from the WHO to local health workers — will not falter and will not give up their efforts to eradicate polio.

Through the lab, Northrop Grumman develops technology to support strategic public health initiatives, including disease surveillance such as H1N1, health data analysis and visualization, modeling and simulation of disease and climate effects, and collaboration across the global health community.

It's a bitter irony that, for those in the global health community contending with viral outbreaks, many of the barriers to mounting an effective response are man - made.

When the Ebola crisis erupted in West Africa, journalists were just as slow to realize what was going on as the global health community.

This discovery has led the global health community to question whether A. albopictus will exacerbate the rate and number of Zika outbreaks as we enter deeper into mosquito season.

And there are limited therapeutic options available to treat candida overgrowth, which raises more concerns for those affected and for us as a global health community.

«By reinforcing the global health community's commitment to sharing research data and information, we can accelerate the development of new solutions to tackle infectious diseases, cut maternal and child mortality, and reduce malnutrition in the world's poorest places,» wrote Trevor Mundel, president of the foundation's Global Health Division, on the group's website on 20 November.

The global health community has significantly limited the existence of diseases like polio.

«Having the International AIDS Conference here in the U.S. marks a significant human rights victory and an opportunity for those of us engaged in the fight against AIDS in this country to connect with the global health community,» said Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America.

The «Fighting for the Healthiest Generation» event echoes both Planned Parenthood's strategic goal of helping create the healthiest generation ever and the call for an AIDS - free generation from the U.S government and global health community.

With the reinstatement and expansion of the global gag rule earlier this year, the global health community is for the first time in the history of this destructive policy encountering threats not just to family planning, but HIV / AIDS, maternal and child health, and a host of other types of health programs.