Africa, India: Deeper scientific collaboration
During a recent high-level meeting, African and Indian scientific ministers agreed to increase collaboration between the two regions... Prevention News
Africa: Young researchers struggle to establish careers
African PhD graduates often have a difficult time establishing careers in their home countries and universities need to provide better support for early career researchers, according to a new report... Prevention News
Global: RHD diagnosis guideline published
The World Heart Federation published the first set of international guidelines for echocardiographic diagnosis of rheumatic heart disease (RHD)... Prevention News
Jordan: Center of new Arab science e-network
Announced at the first annual meeting of the Arab States Research and Education Network (ASREN) in December 2011, Jordan will become the central hub of new regional science collaborations across the region... Prevention News
Nepal: New alliance to improve human resources for health
A new alliance among 24 organizations - such as major NGOs, donors, professional organizations, health worker unions, and educational institutions - will advocate for improving human resources for health in Nepal... Prevention News
Global: Translators Without Borders teams up with Wikipedia
Translators Without Borders has partnered with Wikipedia's Wikiproject Medicine in order to improve access to high quality health information... Prevention News
Global: Strong national efforts needed to reduce brain drain
Some countries have been successful in efforts towards implementing the WHO Global Code of Practice on the International Recruitment of Health Personal - which is designed to reduce brain drain - and similar, strong efforts are needed to meet the increasing health worker shortage... Prevention News
Iran: Rural health workers effective in reducing diabetes, hypertension
Thanks to well-trained Behvarz workers - rural primary health care workers - rural areas of Iran are receiving effective diabetes and hypertension treatment, according to new research involving around 65,000 people... Prevention News
South Africa: New health professionals help alleviate brain drain
The first batch of a new type of health professionals - called "clinical associates" - recently graduated from Wits University in Johannesburg... Prevention News
US: Smokers attempting to quit need support
The majority of adult smokers want to stop smoking, yet most smokers who quit do so without the use of evidence-based advised or counseling from health providers... Journal Review
Tanzania: Education a powerful incentive for rural health workers
Health workers are more likely to take rural job postings if there are better education opportunities, according to new research... Prevention News
Global: Medication adherence a major hurdle in prevention
Medication adherence remains a considerable problem in low- and middle-income countries and the factors influencing adherence need to be discussed with clinicians and policymakers to guarantee access and education to medications... Journal Review
Sub-Saharan Africa: Brain drain costs billions
Brain drain - in this case doctors leaving developing countries to work in high-income countries - costs Sub-Saharan Africa more than US$2 billion a year, according to new research... Prevention News
South Africa: NCDs and HIV/AIDS treatment should be integrated
Because of the projected increase in NCDs such as diabetes and because the health needs of people on anti-retroviral therapy for HIV/AIDS resemble the health needs of people with NCDs, primary level care should integrate the treatment of NCDs and infectious diseases... Prevention News
Bangladesh: IAPs are a major source of chronic disease diagnoses
Informal Allopathic Providers (IAPs) - such as medicine shopkeepers and village doctors - play a large role in diagnosing chronic diseases in rural areas, according to new research involving more than 32,000 people... Prevention News
Pakistan: Evaluating cost-effectiveness of hypertension programs
Despite higher costs, when effectiveness and disability-adjusted life-years are taken into account, a home intervention plus general practitioner training sounds like a reasonable strategy for low-resource settings... Journal Review
Africa: Call to spend more on chronic disease
Health scientists need more funding and support to tackle Africa's growing burden of chronic diseases, according to Olive Shisana, chief executive officer of the South African Human Sciences Research Council, who spoke at the World Health Summit in Berlin, Germany... Prevention News
North Africa/Easter Mediterranean: Identifying capacity building needs for chronic disease prevention
The North African and Eastern Mediterranean regions lack the human capacity necessary to address the growing burden of chronic diseases in the regions... Prevention News
Tanzania: Critical shortage of health workers
Tanzania has only one physician per 50,000 patients, and the misdistribution of the few existing health workers across the country means that rural areas suffer more... Prevention News
Pakistan: Community-based strategies for BP control are cost-effective
Home health education combined with general practitioner training is more cost-effective for blood pressure control compared to either home health education or general practitioner training on their own, according to new research... Prevention News
