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Last Chance to Win a Trip to Vienna for the WHO Meeting

Dear Alessando Thank you for this interesting mesagge, and I would like to encourage you for this initiative. I read all the mesage, and I saw your short film. I am Dr. Elton Rogozi, PhD in Entomology and Public Health. I have also a Master Degree in…

By Alessandro Demaio on 07 Jun 2013 0 Recommendations 1 Replies

New Journal Section: Global Health and Cancer

Hello YP! We are pleased and proud to announce a new section in the journal The Oncologist: “Global Health and Cancer”. The main goal of this section is to share novel and far-reaching research at the crossroads of global health and cancer with the global…

By Alessandro Demaio on 07 Jun 2013 0 Recommendations 0 Replies

Global Health Service Partnership recruiting for 2014

he Global Health Service Partnership, a public-private collaboration, between the Peace Corps and Seed Global Health, (www.seedglobalhealth.org, formerly Global Health Service Corps), is a novel federal program addressing vast shortages of health…

By Jennifer Goldsmith on 07 Jun 2013 0 Recommendations 0 Replies

Health inequity in Somali Land

Mr X from Hargeisa 55 unemployed father died Stroke and when we ask relatives why he is not taking medications it was not that he ignore it put prefer to spend this amount of money for brining food to his children - This is ethically , Economically and…

By DrMohamed Musse on 29 May 2013 0 Recommendations 0 Replies

Assessing the prevalence of diabetes

The link below might suggest how you can extrapolate data from other countries in the absence of existing data for Somali Land; http://care.diabetesjournals.org/content/27/5/1047.full

By DrMohamed Musse on 29 May 2013 0 Recommendations 2 Replies

National Health Policy of Bangladesh & NCD control

It is very good to see the review process of NCD Law in Bangladesh and its being supported by DGHS and WHO. I would like to draw the attention to all of you that at present near about 1% of total children below where is suffering from RICKETS what is non…

By Syed Mahbubul Alam on 29 May 2013 0 Recommendations 1 Replies

Guidelines for the Management of Common Illnesses with Limited Resources

It is a great resource.

By Yen Thanh Mac on 25 May 2013 0 Recommendations 1 Replies

4 th All African Conference on Heart Disease, Diabetes and Stroke Pan African Society of Cardiology Senegalese Society of Cardiology Abstracts 16th – 20th May 2013 Dakar, Senegal

A link to the abstracts of the just concluded PASCAR conference in Dakar, Senegal is now available. It draws from a wide array of topics and themes from the 4th All African conference on Heart Disease, Diabetes and Stroke co-organised by the Pan African…

By Jared Owuor on 21 May 2013 0 Recommendations 0 Replies

Join us at the Global Forum on Humanitarian Medicine in Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery

We welcome you to join the 9th Global Forum on Humanitarian Medicine in Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery, to be held in Geneva from June 27-29, 2013 at the Geneva University Hospital, Geneva, Switzerland. As in 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009 and 2011 the NGO “Hearts…

By Annabel Lavielle on 20 May 2013 0 Recommendations 0 Replies

Cardiovascular health in Africa: Are women more vulnerable?

On the side of the women, I registered an NGO that deals with girl child education and women health. All these years I have discovered that many women in the rural areas with bad marriages are prone to it. Though hereditary, obesity and lifestyle are risk…

By Sophie Beauvais on 17 May 2013 0 Recommendations 2 Replies
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