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Stop TB Partnership announces two new senior leadership appointments to head its Global Drug Facility

31 July 2015 – Geneva, Switzerland – The Stop TB Partnership today announced the appointment of Brenda Waning, PhD, MPH, RPh as the new Chief of the Global Drug Facility (GDF). Dr Waning is an expert in developing, implementing, and analyzing pharmaceutical policies and market approaches to improve access to medicines and diagnostics in resource-limited...

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Jeffrey Sachs: Gilead’s Greed that Kills

Gilead Sciences is an American pharmaceutical company driven by unquenchable greed. The company is causing hundreds of thousands of Americans with Hepatitis C to suffer unnecessarily and many of them to die as the result of its monopolistic practices, while public health programs face bankruptcy. Gilead CEO John C. Martin took home a reported $19...

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¡Excelente noticia! Nigeria prohíbe la ablación del clítoris a las niñas

Es fundamental seguir educando en salud y que todos seamos conscientes de los riesgos que conlleva esta terrible práctica que aún se sigue realizando. La ablación, mutilación del clítoris o “circuncisión femenina”, como lo llaman en muchos países, es una práctica que consiste en la eliminación parcial o total de tejido de los órganos genitales...

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Ethiopia Moves Forward with Major New Grants

Comunicado de prensa – 16 July 2015 ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia – The Government of Ethiopia and the Global Fund partnership today signed four new grants for US$551.6 million to fight HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria and to build resilient and sustainable systems for health. The financial resources provided through the Global Fund come from many sources...

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Los resultados publicados demuestran sólidos avances contra el VIH, la tuberculosis y la malaria

Comunicado de prensa – 15 de julio GINEBRA – Durante la reunión que mantuvieron altos mandatarios mundiales en Addis Abeba para discutir cómo financiar los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible, el Fondo Mundial anunció unos resultados semestrales que demuestran sólidos avances en la lucha contra el VIH, la tuberculosis y la malaria. Según estos resultados, 8,1...

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Pentagon Moves to Allow Transgender People to Serve Openly in the Military

The Pentagon is moving to allow transgender people to serve openly in the military by early next year and end an “outdated” regulation that harms the armed forces, Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter said on Monday. Pentagon officials are to spend the coming months working out the administrative and legal changes needed to remove one...

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Accelerating Domestic Investments in Health

Comunicado de prensa ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia – Efforts to increase domestic investment in health programs has taken a prominent spot at the Financing for Development conference in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, this week. African leaders, including Ethiopian Prime Minister, Hailemariam Desalegn, addressed a session today focused on the need to invest more in health. “African countries...