healthcare

Ending the R&D Crisis in Public Health

Joel M Bassuk — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:18:49 +0000

Diseases that disproportionately affect the developing world cause immense suffering and ill health.

Medical innovation has the potential to deliver n
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Communities Fight Against AIDS in South Africa

Ian McClelland — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 12:12:07 +0000

Maria Mogale is the first to stand up and speak to visitors who approach her and a small group of patients eating a lunch of sorghum and chicken feet in the shade of a tall tree.
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Fighting Cholera: Oxfam Helps Clinics in Congo by Supplying Clean Water

Ian McClelland — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 15:16:55 +0000

“Kabimba” says the sign painted on the wall of a rural health clinic in South Kivu.
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Income or Health: Can HIV patients have both?

Ian McClelland — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 14:28:26 +0000

There is a serious challenge in the South African government's HIV and AIDS response.
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Oxfam Ambassador Kristin Davis in South Africa to help Oxfam break the stigma and close the treatment gaps fuelling AIDS

Joel M Bassuk — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 18:10:54 +0000

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (2 February, 2008) - Kristin Davis, star of US hit TV show Sex & the City, joined Oxfam and leading AIDS activists at a Johannesburg press conference t
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Israel’s blockade poses immediate threat to the lives of Gaza’s sick and elderly, says Oxfam

Joel M Bassuk — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 11:34:10 +0000

Friday 25 January 2007: The seven-month ongoing Israeli blockade is taking an ever-more severe toll on the health system in the Gaza Strip, says aid agency Oxfam International.
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Fatouma, obstetrician nurse, Mali

Joel M Bassuk — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 17:55:22 +0000

This is Fatouma Sadou. She’s an obstetrician nurse at the district hospital in Angsongo, Mali.
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Oxfam targeted with email campaign as Novartis' legal action against India approaches climax

Joel M Bassuk — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 13:18:23 +0000

Novartis’ ongoing law suit against the Indian government, which sees the company challenging the country’s patent law to protect its own profits, enters a crucial phase i
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Novartis lawsuit threatens access to medicines for millions

Joel M Bassuk — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 15:33:25 +0000

Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis must drop its controversial court case against India which begins in Chennai today (Jan 29th), says international agency Oxfam.
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India, Thailand and Philippines must face down conflicts to guarantee affordable medicines

Alex Segrt — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 12:15:28 +0000

Pharmaceutical companies are now embroiled in three high-profile disputes over patents that could have a devastating effect on poor people’s access to affordable medicines, say
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