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• When Is The Cure Worse Than The Disease? Haiti's Cholera Crisis

  by Ami Field - TGJ Staff April 9, 2012

  What completely preventable disease can kill someone in a matter of hours through dehydration and is caused by contaminated water and food? The answer?  Cholera. And it’ is ravaging the Caribbean nation of Haiti as ...

• The Least Sexy Diseases

  by Arun Luykx April 2, 2012

  Read the latest features on the 2012 Geneva Health Forum here. It’s becoming an all too familiar notion: tens of thousands of people die, daily, from chronic diseases in low- and middle-income countries. The ...

• Art Brings Light to Women’s Health

  by Nicoletta Zappile - TGJ Staff March 12, 2012

  Flavia Bustreo and Mario Merialdi both have long experience linked to the reduction of maternal and newborn mortality worldwide. Within the World Health Organization they have already carried out several projects addressing issues related to ...

• Global Health What the Frontliners Can See from the Field

  by The Global Journal March 6, 2012

  Pr. Louis Loutan, President of the Geneva Health Forum and Head of division of International and Humanitarian Medicine at Geneva University Hospitals. What was the origin of the Geneva Health Forum ? We launched the first ...

• Partners in Health Co-founder Implores International Community to Address Problems at The Global Fund

  by The Global Journal February 3, 2012

  Paul Farmer, co-founder of Boston-based Partners in Health – selected in second position in The Global Journal’s Top 100 NGOs ranking – has come out strongly in support of The Global Fund to Fight Tuberculosis, AIDS ...

• Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Pledges $750 million to The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria

  by The Global Journal January 26, 2012

  The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has invested $750 million in The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.   Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Bill Gates announced a $750 million promissory ...

• Shake-Up at The Global Fund Sees Kazatchkine Exit

  by Ami Field - TGJ Staff January 25, 2012

  Could French First Lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy have brought down the head of The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria? That’s what some media reports are suggesting. On Tuesday, Dr. Kazatchkine, who was ...

• #63 - Movember Foundation

  by The Global Journal January 23, 2012

  Changing ‘the face’ of men’s health. Approaching 2 million participants globally. Attention to men’s health issues has increasingly emerged as a societal ‘gap’ – as one prominent British doctor explains, ‘men are not good ...

• #68 - Panzi Hospital/Foundation

  by The Global Journal January 23, 2012

  Treating the silent victims of sexual violence. World experts in fistula repair. The eastern provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo have been plagued by conflict for more than two decades. Rape has become ...

• #65 - OneWorld Health

  by The Global Journal January 23, 2012

  Developing critical treatments for neglected diseases. Thousands of beneficiaries. In a sobering statistic, only three percent of the pharmaceutical industry’s research and development budget is dedicated to diseases in the developing world, despite the ...

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