The International Day of Families provides an opportunity to promote awareness of issues relating to families and to increase knowledge of the social, economic and demographic processes affecting families. The theme for 2015 is: Men in Charge? Gender Equality and Children’s Rights in Contemporary Families. Within the context of the development goals, this theme is…
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The link between local community health and global health is often overlooked. When poor health systems are discussed it is often in the context of “us vs. them” a developed to developing relationship that has very few parallels. In many ways this is true: the diseases that plague the developing world are not as prevalent…
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“We needed to develop “delivery platforms” to treat tuberculosis and address the poverty that both puts people at risk for the disease and prevents them from being cured of it. With this airborne disease, good delivery systems prevent transmission–and that’s what public health is supposed to be all about.” -Paul Farmer This year’s international…
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