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Rwanda: Health Insurance for All in 2009
The Ministry of Health has announced that a significant 91 percent of the Rwandan population were subscribers to different health insurance schemes by…
<cite>Lancet</cite> Examines Use of Text Messaging Technology To Increase TB Treatment Adherence
Disease control and technology specialists are examining the use of cellular phone text messaging to monitor tuberculosis patients in remote…
Debate Over Mandatory HIV Testing Increases in Malaysia, New Cases Up Among Married Women
The Malaysian government plans to expand a rule requiring HIV screening for all couples, despite protests from HIV/AIDS experts and civil rights…
India Introduces Second-Line Antiretroviral Treatment in Eight States
India's National AIDS Control Organization is expanding the availability of second-line antiretroviral treatment to HIV-positive people resistant to…
Global Update: Hemorrhagic Fever Reappears in Congo
The Ebola virus, which causes a deadly hemorrhagic fever, has surfaced for the second time in less than two years in south-central Congo.
UGANDA: Poor TB management in the north heightens resistance risk
GULU Monday, January 05, 2009 (IRIN) - Christopher Odong coughs incessantly in his bed in the tuberculosis ward of a hospital in the northern Ugandan…
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