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Mashup Score: 0Breakthrough Research Promises Shorter Treatment For Multi-Drug-Resistant TB - Health Policy Watch - 5 day(s) ago
In a breakthrough for patients with multi-drug-resistant (MDR) tuberculosis (TB), researchers shared positive trial results for a shorter, tailored
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Mashup Score: 2It's Time To Stop The World’s Oldest Pandemic: We Need A New Tuberculosis Vaccine - Health Policy Watch - 9 day(s) ago
This week, experts and policymakers are convening at the Union’s World Conference on Lung Health to discuss tuberculosis (TB), the world’s deadliest and most
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“According to WHO, accelerating the scale up of vaccines would prevent up to 76.6 million cases, while producing between $372 billion in economic benefits by 2050.” https://t.co/wsDUGnOZ6A
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Mashup Score: 3Another Rwandan Health Worker Gets Marburg, While Cases Of Kids Co-infected With Mpox And Measles Rise - Health Policy Watch - 26 day(s) ago
Rwanda has recorded its 63rd Marburg case, while cases of children coinfected with both mpox and measles are rising in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC),
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“Meanwhile, the source of the Marburg outbreak has been traced to fruit bats in a cave where the index case had been mining” https://t.co/5eM5vLt6I1
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Mashup Score: 2World Can Halve Premature Deaths By 2050, Lancet Commission Reports - Health Policy Watch - 1 month(s) ago
All countries, regardless of their economic status, could halve premature death rates by 2050, a new report published in The Lancet suggests.
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Many thanks to @HealthPolicyW for this terrific news feature on our "Global Health 2050" report https://t.co/xelAVSv6OD
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Mashup Score: 0Marburg: Africa CDC Accuses U.S. Government Of Creating Panic - Health Policy Watch - 1 month(s) ago
The Africa CDC has slammed the U.S. government’s recent Level 3 travel advisory for Rwanda as unfair and baseless, arguing it undermines Rwanda’s proactive
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I think it’s disingenous and overtly misleading to conflate travel advisories with travel bans. https://t.co/WyCzXVsvRV
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Mashup Score: 26Cardiometabolic Diseases Threaten Life Expectancy Gains, Even In Young Countries - Health Policy Watch - 1 month(s) ago
GENEVA – Cardiometabolic diseases, a group of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) including cardiovascular disease, stroke, diabetes, and non-alcoholic fatty
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Cardiometabolic Diseases Threaten Life Expectancy Gains, Even In Young Countries - Health Policy Watch https://t.co/QxPSNmYrZb
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Mashup Score: 2WHO Approval Of Mpox Diagnostic Test Empowers Health Facilities To Process Results - Health Policy Watch - 2 month(s) ago
The first mpox test that enables health facilities to test people and get results onsite has been given Emergency Use List (EUL) approval by the World Health
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“Abbott’s Alinity m MPXV assay is a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test that can give an mpox diagnosis within around two hours from a swab of a patient’s lesion.” https://t.co/8MnFqD5SR4
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The first two people with Marburg also had malaria, which slowed down their diagnosis, Rwandan Health Minister Dr Sabin Nsanzimana told a media briefing on
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“The hospital that was attending to the first suspected cases raised the alarm, saying we’re seeing patients, two cases, that are not responding to usual [malaria] treatment. The symptoms for Marburg are very similar to those of malaria,” https://t.co/yFdiEST71N
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Mashup Score: 14Progress To End AIDS In Georgia ‘Threatened’ By New Anti-LGBTQ+ Law - Health Policy Watch - 2 month(s) ago
UNAIDS expressed “deep concern” Wednesday over Georgia’s newly adopted anti-LGBTQ+ law, saying that it could threaten progress made over the past decade to
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RT @EamonnMurphy63: Progress to End AIDS in Georgia ‘Threatened’ by New Anti-LGBTQ+ Law https://t.co/WoxunnaQ5U
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Mashup Score: 3Congress Call For Integrating Cancer Into UHC And Tackling Commercial Drivers Of Disease - Health Policy Watch - 2 month(s) ago
GENEVA – Ensuring that universal health coverage (UHC) protects cancer patients and tackling commercial interests driving cancer were two issues in the
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Congress Call for Integrating Cancer into UHC and Tackling Commercial Drivers of Disease https://t.co/MnVCBsf0k7
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“BCDL, given for 6-9 mos, is an excellent approach for those who don’t have severe disease at baseline..success rate is almost 95% and it has a big advantage compared to the historical conventional treatment because it’s much shorter and less toxic” https://t.co/VObZ82b1lb