by Beth | Jul 28, 2006 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
While passions flare on all sides of the language debate, the result is that the language barrier negatively impacts health care for 50 million (19 percent) U.S. residents who do not speak English at home and the 22 million (eight percent) with limited English...
by Beth | May 4, 2006 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
Although it is too early to tell whether a new Massachusetts law will succeed in its goal of providing health insurance coverage for nearly everyone in the commonwealth by July 2007, the president and C.E.O. of the Catholic Health Association said she is “immensely...
by Beth | Feb 3, 2006 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
LONDON (Reuters) – An early warning system based on climate models, average rainfall and data on seasonal malaria can predict the risk of an epidemic of the killer disease five months in advance, scientists said on Wednesday. The system has been devised by...
by Beth | Jan 21, 2006 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
WASHINGTON, Jan 19 (Reuters) – The World Health Organization asked pharmaceutical companies on Thursday to end the marketing and sale of “single-drug” artemisinin malaria medicines, in order to prevent malaria parasites from developing resistance to...
by Beth | Dec 30, 2005 | Poverty: Analysis and Responses
International donors are getting behind a project being developed by the World Bank and Roll Back Malaria aimed at making new, effective malaria drugs affordable worldwide in a year. By using a subsidy of at least $100 million provided by aid donors, officials hope to...
