Sentences with phrase «increasing access to treatments»

To halt this trend, Governor Cuomo has implemented aggressive efforts, including changes in insurance to ensure coverage of substance use disorder treatment, increased access to treatment, additional treatment capacity in regions across the state, and comprehensive public awareness efforts.

«This multi-faceted legislative package will increase access to treatment, expand prevention strategies, and save lives by helping ensure New Yorkers struggling with addiction have access to the services and resources they need to get well.

«As hepatitis C has become a major public health concern in Malaysia, it is crucial to increase access to treatment for the benefit of the nation,» said Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah Director General of Health, Ministry of Health, Malaysia.

«All these are important, but I continue to emphasize what I see on the frontlines — a need for increased access to treatment that is evidence - based and well established.»

In cotinues to confirm the increased Access to treatment for people living with HIV in all regions.

Not exact matches

Innovations are allowing medicines and vaccines to be created and distributed at lower cost, increasing access to necessary treatments around the world.

«Bringing new biosimilars to patients, especially for diseases where the cost of existing treatments can be high, is an important way to help spur competition that can lower healthcare costs and increase access to important therapies,» said FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb in a statement.

She is enthusiastic about increasing awareness of selective mutism and improving access to effective treatment.

Thousands of deaths could be averted through a combined prevention and treatment strategy — interventions such as improved mother and child nutrition, optimal breastfeeding practices; Oral Rehydration Therapy [ORT]; new low - osmolarity formulations of ORS; incorporating rotavirus vaccines; zinc supplementation during diarrhoea episodes; immunizing all children against measles; appropriate drug therapy; increased access to safe clean water and sanitation facilities and improved personal and domestic hygiene, including keeping food and water clean and washing hands before touching food.

This directive will build upon additional measures to expedite referrals and treatment, including expansion of Project TEACH to connect primary care providers with mental health specialists, enhanced screening and referrals at WIC clinics and increased access to telepsychiatry for those in rural communities.

Improving access to treatments provides another opportunity to increase survival.

By providing better testing, increased access to screenings and treatment, collaboration with healthcare providers and the same aggressive approach, we are going to end the Hepatitis C epidemic as well.»

The new effort aims to stop the Hepatitis C virus in its tracks by increasing access to medications that can cure Hepatitis C and expanding programs to connect New Yorkers in high - risk communities with wrap - around Hepatitis C prevention, screenings and treatment services.

The proposal to spend $ 1 million from county savings to increase treatment access for drug addicts originated with Patrick Burke, D - Buffalo.

In a letter to Assembly and Senate leaders, Andrew Cuomo said he'd like consensus on combatting the heroin epidemic, increasing access to breast cancer screening and treatment, ethics reform, campaign donation laws and updating the alcohol beverage control law.

«Countries using these measures should instead increase the availability of proven opioid - agonist therapies, such as methadone, and ensure there is adequate access to voluntary treatment programs in community settings and facilitate people with opioid addiction to seek treatment.»

The National Institute of Drug Abuse has found that increasing access to medication assisted treatment decreases opioid use, deaths related to overdoses, crime and the transmission of diseases, Boyle said, though the approach is not being used enough.

Co-author Professor Fabio Levi (MD), Head of the Cancer Epidemiology Unit at the Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois and University of Lausanne, (Switzerland), said: «Besides enforcing tobacco control — essentially by increasing taxation — national governments and EU policy makers must ensure that all EU citizens have access to the best screening, diagnosis and treatment, including those from central and eastern Europe where major delays are still observed and where cancer mortality rates tend to be higher as a result.»

Melinda Mills, co-author and Nuffield Professor of Sociology, said: «With the increased postponement of having children at later ages, access to ART treatments has growing relevance.

U.S. Health & Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell last year proposed a response, calling for a program to change doctors» opioid prescribing practices, to expand the use of naloxone, a drug used to reverse the effects of an opioid overdoses, and increase patient access to medication assisted treatments for opioid use disorders.

The authors contend that the Parkinson's community must come together and focus its activism in support of: developing a better understand the environmental, genetic, and behavioral causes and risk factors for Parkinson's to help prevent its onset; increasing access to care — an estimated 40 percent of people with the disease in both the U.S. and Europe do not see a neurologist and the number is far greater in developing nations; advocating for increases in research funding for the disease; and lowering the cost of treatments — many patients in low - income countries do not have access to drugs that are both lifesaving and improve quality of life.

«MSF and DNDi are working together to increase access to care and treatment for HCV patients in key low - and middle - income countries, through the STORM - C project financed by MSF's Transformational Investment Capacity (TIC) initiative.

One key to battling the epidemic is increasing access to medication - assisted treatment, the most efficacious of which is methadone, Abraham said.

Second, the agency is working to increase access to long - term treatments.

This could include leveraging technology to increase reach and access to screening, treatment and referrals.

The authors review over 800 recent studies addressing human rights violations against sex workers, HIV, law and policy, concluding that criminalization of sex work fuels and fosters human rights violations and increases sex workers» susceptibility to HIV, including by reducing sex workers» access to HIV prevention, treatment and care.

As part of a suite of measures to support the country's life science sector, the United Kingdom plans to increase researchers» access to medical patient data and funnel # 180 million ($ 280 million) to a new fund designed to help turn basic science into marketable treatments, Prime Minister David Cameron announced today.

«With increased access to this potentially life - saving treatment, we can continue to improve outcomes for the growing population of elderly patients fighting early stage cancer.»

The nine guidelines are focused around three areas: a commitment to science - based communications (increasing access to scientific data and analyses), providing appropriate context about data (ensuring health professionals are informed about emerging data on the safety and effectiveness of treatments) and accurately representing data (communications should be clearly communicated and incorporated into the existing knowledge of the intended audience).

«Medicare Part D was created to increase access to prescription drug treatment among beneficiaries, but our data suggest that current policies are interfering with that goal when it comes to specialty drugs,» said Doshi, adding that making Part D out - of - pocket costs more consistent, and limiting them to more reasonable sums would help mitigate this negative impact.

Its mission is to increase access to and improve the quality of addiction treatment, to educate physicians, and other health care providers and the public, to support research and prevention, to promote the appropriate role of the physician in the care of patients with addictive disorders, and to establish addiction medicine as a specialty recognized by professional organizations, governments, physicians, purchasers and consumers of health care services and the general public.

Clip: Aubrey de Grey, Paul Root Wolpe, and Brian Kennedy discuss who would have access to treatments that can extend human lives and whether or not it will increase the gap between rich and poor.

Conducting seminal intervention trials against malaria that have fed directly into national and international policy which has contributed to the prevention of millions of deaths; these include trials of impregnated bed nets, the prevention of malaria in pregnant women, interventions to improve community based treatment and interventions to increase access to safe effective drugs.

Join National Eczema Association in encouraging lawmakers to pass legislation that helps people with eczema get access to safe, affordable treatments and increases the number of dollars the government allocates to eczema research.

Our aim is to increase access to effective treatment, end the stigma associated with mental health issues, and foster a community for those affected by OCD and the professionals who treat them.

(g) Working to ensure that the next generation is born HIV - free by providing, on an urgent basis, extended and sustainable coverage and improved quality of services to prevent mother - to - child transmission as well as increasing access to paediatric HIV treatment services....

The gala will aim to raise funds to increase access to HIV prevention and treatment services for women and children worldwide and will coincide with an exclusive design auction led and curated by Simon de Pury and Design Miami.

Medicines: Our goal remains to scale up international efforts to provide universal access to prevention, treatment, care and support services.The ten-fold increase in people on treatment in sub-Saharan Africa in recent years shows that we can do it.

Various options are proposed to tackle the issue: rehabilitation vouchers - these address the point of «phantom» attendance for rehabilitation, but may be complex to administer; all rehabilitation arranged and paid for by defendants - the MoJ notes that this would help speed up access to treatment and increase independence and transparency; no compensation payment towards rehabilitation in low value claims - the claimant would need to fund this and primary legislation would be needed to achieve this as at present there is no intention to restrict recovery of special damages; expand MedCo to include rehabilitation providers; and introducing fixed recoverable damages for rehabilitation treatment - the MoJ notes that this could be difficult and invites comment as to whether this would be achieved via a fixed cost per session or by fixing an upper value limit that can not be exceeded.

With little access to information and inadequate disability pensions, workers and their families knew that as hard - working, honest employees they deserved better: being treated with respect and dignity, job security or full compensation, annual cost of living increases, the right to diagnosis and treatment by their own doctors, and adequate safety protection.

Highlights Crowned King of the Sales Team for consistently bringing in at least 20 new clients each quarter Developed strong relationships with clients that led to first access when new items hit the market Drafted a dynamite business plan that led to increased saturation of market Combined expert industry knowledge with first - rate customer service for great client retention rates Brilliant mind for details, including personal information about each doctor or medical practitioner acquired as a client Extensive knowledge of disease pathology and the best treatment options Experience Medical Sales Representative 6/1/2010 — Current Sunnyvale Pharmaceuticals — Los Angeles, CA Repeatedly earned the top earner's spot in the company's monthly competition.

Highlights Expanded market share for various pharmaceuticals by at least 20 percent per year Developed strong relationships with primary care physicians and specialists to be allowed first access to promote new products Masterful understanding of a variety of pharmaceuticals and medical equipment Excellent verbal and written communication skills Created a territory business plan that resulted in an increase in sales that exceeded goals by 50 percent Solid knowledge of the cost issues practitioners face Educated in disease processes and pathology as well as the traditional care and treatment for various disorders Experience Medical Sales Representative 4/1/2012?

AnxietyBC A nonprofit organization whose mission is to increase awareness and education of anxiety disorders, increase access to evidence - based treatment, and to encourage and develop new treatments and delivery.

The struggle to meet the increasing demand for psychological therapies, particularly during financial downturns, has driven interest in how therapies can be delivered more efficiently and effectively.3 Computerised cognitive behaviour therapy (cCBT) is a rapidly advancing field that has been recommended within National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) clinical guidelines for depression.4 Proponents of cCBT have highlighted increased access for patients and the potential of these treatments to empower patients, 5, 6 while others have been sceptical that therapy can work in the absence of a therapeutic relationship with a professional.7

Depression is the leading cause of disability adjusted life years globally.1 The WHO recommends integrating mental health treatments into primary care in order to increase access to effective treatments.2 Alongside increasing prevalence, many economies are facing fiscal pressure that affect their health services.

Study results are expected to include identifying methods for increasing outpatient treatment access, continuation, effectiveness, and efficiency for kids with anxiety and OCD.

Cutting Violence and Cutting Prison Costs in Maine: Accessing Available Federal Funds to Provide Essential Health Care (PDF - 569 KB) Fight Crime: Invest in Kids Maine (2013) Offers information on how Maine has increased access to health screenings and treatment for people with mental and behavioral health challenges — including alcohol and other substance abuse problems for improved parent - child welfare.

Our aim is to increase access to effective treatment, end the stigma associated with mental health issues, and foster a community for those affected by OCD and the professionals who treat them.

When working with a therapist in private practice, advantages could include direct access / communication, and increased privacy compared to a clinical / public treatment center.

The plan will work to increase testing, provide better access to treatment, and decrease the number of new HIV cases.