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Available Now: Global Fund Round 10 Toolkit on Health Systems Strengthening

By Eric Friedman on June 7, 2010

The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria launched its Round 10 call for proposals on May 20. Round 10 gives countries around the world another opportunity to utilize the Global Fund to support health systems strengthening (HSS) and build health systems that can tackle AIDS, TB, and malaria, as well as provide better [...]

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Why Human Rights?

By Neil Chawla on April 3, 2009

Is healthcare a right? What is a human right? Why is this important in Africa? Wednesday was spent meeting people who offered different perspectives on these questions and elucidated new ideas for progress in Uganda.
This is a country rife with the denial of basic rights. From a lack of educational opportunities [...]

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Greetings from the Pearl of Africa

By Mona Singh on April 1, 2009

Hey Everyone! My name is Mona Singh, and I’m a first year med student at Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, actively engaged in my school’s PHR chapter. As a student advocate for PHR’s Health Action AIDS Campaign, I am excited to be writing to you from Kampala, Uganda. I am here with two other [...]

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Zimbabwe’s Health Crisis Threatens Increased Risk of Resistant TB

By Richard Sollom on March 24, 2009

So the good news is that the cholera epidemic in Zimbabwe is finally getting under control. Weekly case fatality rates have dropped from over 5% to now about 1%. The bad news is that tuberculosis may soon take its place as a leading cause of death in Zimbabwe. According to the WHO, Zimbabwe has the [...]

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