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To End the HIV Epidemic, We Need to Close the Innovation Gap
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World AIDS Day is dedicated to raising awareness about HIV/AIDS and mourning the loss of those who have died of the disease. Since its establishment in 1988, massive strides have been made in improving prognosis for those living with HIV. These include safer, cheaper and more effective anti-retroviral drugs; development of rapid diagnostics; and the introduction of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP). Despite these innovations and advances, HIV/AIDS remains the second-leading infectious disease killer in the world.
While HIV mortality has been reduced, there is still a long way to go towards achieving the UNAIDS 90-90-90 targets for diagnosis, treatment and viral suppression; and serious donor fatigue threatens to reverse the progress that has already been made. Only 70% of people with HIV know their status; a mere 54% of adult and 42% of children living with HIV are receiving lifesaving therapy (ART); and one million people lost their lives due to HIV-related causes in 2016.
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How Can AI and Medicine Work Together to Solve a Global Health Crisis? This Test will Show the Way
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As a child, Krisna Bhargava PhD ‘15 made frequent visits to the doctor’s office, seeking relief for his ongoing coughs, colds and asthma.
Years later, Bhargava’s primary care physician, still a family friend, would confide to him a prominent challenge to treatment: determining whether an infection was caused by bacteria or a virus.
Even in today’s advanced medical world, doctors have yet to obtain a fast and reliable method for diagnosing respiratory infections. Bhargava, now a healthy USC alumnus and postdoc in materials science, aspires to help patients like him who have struggled with this predicament.
To that end, Bhargava and his advisor, Associate Professor Noah Malmstadt, along with USC PhD candidate Bryant Thompson, founded ReoLab – a startup that couples advanced computing and sensing technologies to pinpoint the cause of a respiratory infection, all within a doctor’s appointment.
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Why The World Ignores Diseases of Poverty
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More than 1 billion people worldwide are infected with diseases of poverty. These conditions disproportionately afflict the world’s poorest, either in the developing world, or in developed countries with extreme inequality.
Though well-known conditions such as HIV/AIDS and malaria are considered diseases of poverty, many of the other illnesses that primarily strike the world’s poorest are lesser-known and frequently misunderstood. The World Health Organization has designated about 20 of these conditions as “ neglected tropical diseases.” This diverse array of conditions ― such as leprosy, dengue, Chagas, and elephantiasis, to name a few ― don’t attract the global media attention or funding that certain wide-ranging tropical diseases, such as malaria, have garnered in recent years.
Neglected diseases cost developing economies billions of dollars annually and lock sufferers into a cycle of poverty that is nearly impossible to escape.
So why does the rest of the world overlook or ignore most diseases of poverty?
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The Perils of Male Bias: Alice Evans replies to yesterday’s ‘Sausagefest’
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Across the world, we tend to venerate men as knowledgeable authorities. These gender stereotypes are self-perpetuating: by paying more attention to their ideas and analysis, citing their work more frequently, we reinforce widespread assumptions of male expertise. We also blinker ourselves to alternative perspectives. This is self-defeating – if we’re trying to understand complex problems.
So, upon popular request (well, 3 people), here are five big problems in international development, plus female scholarship to learn from.
1. Poor Governance: demotivated, despondent bureaucrats, pursuing private interests, rather than public service
2. Economic Growth From 1980–98, median per capita income growth in developing countries was 0%. These lost decades reflect the Asia's Next Giantfailed ‘The Washington Consensus’.
3. Social Inequalities A growing body of research indicates two key drivers of women’s empowerment: paid employment outside the home (building self-esteem, forging diverse networks, and collectively questioning patriarchal norms); and social mobilisation (strengthening collective capacities to protest structural inequalities).
4. Collective Resistance In a time of growing authoritarianism, nativism, and inequality, we urgently need to learn about collective resistance.
5. Decolonising Development This must be a priority for us all: to end these normative visions of ‘good governance’; to stop pretending we (white, educated folk in the Global North) know best; and start learning from more diverse perspectives.
To read more about this article go to https://oxfamblogs.org
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International Week 2018
Jan. 29 - Feb. 2, 2018
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Annual BGHRN Symposium & Global Health Fair 2018
January 29, 2018
11:00 to 18:00
Room: 2-420 ECHA
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Conversation Cafe
Guest Speaker:
Evelyn Hamdon (PhD Cand.)
January 25, 2018
2-490 ECHA
To view the informative poster please click here.
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Annual Rich Man Poor Man Dinner Event 2018
April 7, 2018
Time: 6:00 pm to 9:30 pm
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Conferences, Symposiums & Lectures
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"Making the World Safe from the Threats of Emerging Infectious Diseases"
Conference
Jan. 29 to Feb 3, 2018
Bangkok, Thailand
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2018 CUGH Conference March 16 - 18, 2018 New York Hilton Midtown,
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Global Health & Innovation Conference April 14-15, 2018
Yale University
New Haven, CT
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Call for Abstracts/Submissions
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Annual BGHRN Symposium & Global Health Fair 2018
January 29, 2018
Location: 2-420 (ECHA)
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Global Health & Innovation Conference at Yale on
April 14-15, 2018
is calling for abstracts.
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