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Mashup Score: 6Revolution in health care - 15 day(s) ago
Giving a speech in 1960, the year after the Cuban Revolution, Che Guevara spoke of the role of medicine in the new Cuba, telling supporters “our task now is to orient the creative abilities of all medical professionals toward the tasks of social medicine”. In Revolutionary Doctors, Steve Brouwer assesses the accomplishments of those who were to follow Che’s prescription, tracing the development of Cuba’s systems of health care and medical education since the revolution, together with the role of medicine in the country’s relations with the outside world.
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Mashup Score: 15A pandemic agreement is within reach - 16 day(s) ago
At the end of May, 194 member states of the World Health Organization (WHO) will meet for the World Health Assembly. Negotiations underway now will determine whether they vote then to adopt a pandemic agreement. For the past 2 years, discussions have focused on articulating essential components of a robust and equitable architecture for pandemic preparedness and response. Despite this, talks have failed to produce sufficient consensus on a detailed draft, prompting the intergovernmental negotiating body to propose a “streamlined” version. The new text, released on 16 April, consolidates provisions for research and development, technology transfer, pathogen access and benefit sharing (including pandemic products such as medicines and vaccines), with many particulars deferred to future procedures. Ultimately, success of the agreement will depend on these details and implementation. Nevertheless, member states shouldn’t bypass the consensus reached to date, but continue progress to adopt
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Mashup Score: 8Over 100 Human Rights Groups Blast Biden And Congress For Suspending Critical Palestine Aid - 19 day(s) ago
Not reinstating the funding “would be a moral stain on this Administration and Congress’s legacy,” the groups said in a joint letter, which was first seen by HuffPost.
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Mashup Score: 6The HIV Field Needs Early-Stage Investigators (VIDEO) - 26 day(s) ago
The HIV research community is led by scientists with deep personal commitments to improving the lives of people with and affected by HIV. Our collective decades of work have generated HIV testing, prevention and treatment options beyond what we could have imagined in the 1980s. Those advances enable NIAID to explore new frontiers: expanding HIV prevention and treatment modalities, increasing understanding of the interplay between HIV and other infectious and non-communicable diseases, optimizing choice and convenience, and building on the ever-growing knowledge base that we need to develop a preventive vaccine and cure. The next generation of leaders will bring these concepts to fruition, and we need to welcome and support them into the complex and competitive field of HIV science.
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Mashup Score: 13Children disproportionately wearing the scars of the war in Gaza - Geneva Palais briefing note - 28 day(s) ago
This is a summary of what was said by UNICEF Communication Specialist Tess Ingram – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today’s press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva
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Mashup Score: 30Record Numbers in the US Are Homeless. Can Cities Fine Them for Sleeping in Parks and on Sidewalks? - 29 day(s) ago
The most significant case in decades on homelessness has reached the Supreme Court as record numbers of people in America are without a permanent place to live
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Mashup Score: 6PEPFAR Reauthorization by Congress Urgent for Global Health - 1 month(s) ago
This Viewpoint discusses the importance of the US Congress reauthorizing funding for the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, a program developed in 2003 that has played a critical role in fighting HIV/AIDS worldwide as well as other emerging infections and noncommunicable diseases.
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Mashup Score: 17Should Patients with COVID-19 Who Are at Standard Risk Take Nirmatrelvir/Ritonavir? - 1 month(s) ago
U.S. National Institutes of Health guidelines currently recommend nirmatrelvir/ritonavir (Paxlovid) as first-line therapy for outpatients with COVID-19
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Mashup Score: 28Sexually Transmitted Infections—A Closer Look at NIAID Research - 1 month(s) ago
Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are caused by bacteria, viruses, or parasites. NIAID supports research across the spectrum from basic to clinical science to develop effective diagnostic, preventive and therapeutic approaches to STIs in alignment with the National STI Strategic Plan. In recognition of National STI Awareness Week, NIAID shares a snapshot of new projects and recent scientific advances in STI research.
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Mashup Score: 7Case Series Examining the Long-Acting Combination of Lenacapavir and Cabotegravir: Call for a Trial - CROI Conference - 1 month(s) ago
Background: Long-acting antiretroviral therapy (LA-ART) is novel and has been used for both virologically-suppressed (VS) and viremic patients with adherence challenges. The currently-approved LA-ART combination – cabotegravir (CAB) and rilpivirine (RPV) – is limited by the relatively high prevalence (up to 10%) of nonnucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor (NNRTI) resistant virus globally and is not endorsed
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MEDICINE: "Our task now is to orient the creative abilities of all medical professionals toward the tasks of social medicine". Doctors can't sit by when health is so endangered, death so rampant @MSF and the @WHO fighting for right of innocents to live https://t.co/iSOHEF7632