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Private-Private Partnership Delivers Affordable Eye Care to 18 African Countries
An Irish non-profit, Right to Sight (RTS), partnered with a NGO - Lions Aravinda Institute of Community Ophthalmology (LAICO) and a private-for-profit company, Shalina, to deliver quality, affordable and sustainable eye care in Democratic Republic o
More Poverty and Tuberculosis (TB) in Indigenous People
'Where we have indigenous people, we have more poverty and more TB incidence' said Mirtha del Granado, Regional Adviser on TB, WHO (in Americas) at the 41st Union World Conference on Lung Health, Berlin, Germany.
Rockefeller Foundation Aims for The Transformation of Health Systems
'Universal Health Coverage would mean better health outcomes, greater equity and lower poverty, and we can make this happen. Achieving universal health coverage is not so much about mobilizing more capital (although it is necessary ), but it is
Health Services Offer No Solution When Pockets are Empty
What makes the world so far behind universal health coverage is related to factors such as weak health systems and health financing systems that do not function.
TB and Tobacco Consumption Kill Millions of People Every Year
The connection between breath and life is fundamental, yet lung health does not seem to be high on the public health agenda. Around 10 million people (especially the poor, old and the weak) die every year, due to lung diseases, including tuberculosi
