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10 facts on obstetric fistula
Each year between 50 000 to 100 000 women worldwide are affected by obstetric fistula, a hole in the birth canal. The development of obstetric fistula is directly linked to one of the major causes of maternal mortality: obstructed labour.
Women who experience obstetric fistula suffer constant incontinence, shame, social segregation and health problems. It is [...]
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HIV Treatment in Low-income Countries
Patients with HIV/AIDS may live longer with the early start of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) in low-income countries, new research has found. The researchers of the study, published on 16 January 2010 in AIDS Research and Therapy, acknowledge the dilemma financially-constrained low-income countries face in choosing between providing HIV treatment to more patients and [...]
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Inadequate surgical provision in African district general hospitals
Two papers published this week in PLoS Medicine by Margaret Kruk and colleagues investigate surgical provision in eight district hospitals in three sub-Saharan African countries. The authors, from the USA and Africa, show low levels of surgical care provision, a lack of specialist surgeons and anaesthetists, and low expenditure on surgical provision.
Conditions that require surgery, [...]
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