How the best tools can bring health care to the right people at the right places: Precision public health can make a huge difference to people across Africa. Albert González Farran, UNAMIDPrecision medicine is based on the concept that medical care should closely target an individual patient’s needs. Precision public health takes the concept one step further, suggesting that … [Read more...] about How the best tools can bring health care to the right people at the right places | The Conversation
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Health Care in Africa: What Next?
Health Care in Africa: What Next?: By Robert Guest and Slavea Chankova* In the war between humanity and disease, perhaps the greatest victory of recent years took place in Africa. At the turn of the millennium, serious analysts expected HIV/AIDS to kill up to half the people in some southern African countries. But then the price of anti-retroviral drugs fell from $ … [Read more...] about Health Care in Africa: What Next?
Message on World Mental Health Day – 10 October 2016
Message on World Mental Health Day - 10 October 2016: On World Mental Health Day, the United Nations highlights the importance of making mental health care available to all people who need it, whatever their circumstances and wherever they live. This year, we are drawing attention to the urgent need to provide immediate support to people who experience psychological distress … [Read more...] about Message on World Mental Health Day – 10 October 2016
WHO responds to the critical health needs of IDPs in Mafa and Dikwa, Borno State, Nigeria
WHO responds to the critical health needs of IDPs in Mafa and Dikwa, Borno State, Nigeria: In response to the critical health needs of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Borno state, the World Health Organization (WHO) through the State Ministry of Health has delivered emergency medical supplies to Mafa and Dikwa IDP camps, two of the 15 areas liberated this year that host … [Read more...] about WHO responds to the critical health needs of IDPs in Mafa and Dikwa, Borno State, Nigeria
Why South Africa is failing mental health patients and what can be done about it | The Conversation
Why South Africa is failing mental health patients and what can be done about it: ShutterstockHealth authorities in South Africa’s wealthiest province, Gauteng, have launched an investigation into the deaths of 37 people with chronic mental illness who died over a four-month period. The patients were part of a group of 1300 relocated from a mental … [Read more...] about Why South Africa is failing mental health patients and what can be done about it | The Conversation
