Caught Our Eye
News & Views
From The Lancet, “Chinese doctors are under threat”
From AllAfrica.com, “Unfriendly Nurses and Culture Hinder Male Involvement in HIV Prevention” and “Zambia: Traditional Healers And HIV/AIDS”
From American Medical News, “NDM-1 Superbug Poses Threat to Medical Tourists”
From the New York Times, “Could a Peanut Paste End Malnutrition?”
From the Washington Times, “New cables to tie Africa to Internet”
From IRINNews.com, “Kenya: Camel clinics bring condoms to nomads”
From Slate.com, “India, the Rent-a-Womb Capital of the World”
From The New Vision, “Community involvement key to the HIV/AIDS fight”
From ICTWorks.org, “Kenya has 3.5 million internet users—not enough for Ministry for Information and Communications”
Resources
From the World Health Organization, “Global Experience of Community Health Workers for Delivery of Health Related Millennium Development Goals: A Systematic Review, Country Case Studies, and Recommendations for Integration into National Health Systems” [note: link goes to a pdf]
From the Gates Foundation blog, a series of blogs on the Millennium Development Goals by Melinda French Gates
From the White Ribbon Alliance Birth and Death, a video
“African nations can reach the health-related Millennium Development Goals”, a speech by Dr Margaret Chan, Director-General of the World Health Organization
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