Narrowing World Health Disparities

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A sweeping new report by the World Health Organization's Commission on Social Determinants of Health challenges governments to improve world health through smart social policy.

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Drug-resistant tuberculosis on the rise

WHO Confirms Human-to-Human Bird Flu Case

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The World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed on Thursday a single case of human-to-human transmission of the H5N1 bird flu virus in a family in Pakistan but said there was no apparent risk of it spreading wider.

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Indonesia to tackle tuberculosis and dengue

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Indonesia is set to attack both dengue fever and tuberculosis, in a move that should both boost the country's profile in clinical research and tackle two devastating diseases.

A collaboration between the Novartis Institute of Tropical Diseases (NITD) and two Indonesian research centres was announced on 25 January at Hasanuddin University in Makassar, the capital of South Sulawesi. "This will be the first true clinical research centre in Indonesia

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