Millions of cancer patients around the world have no access to pain medication. Read the latest piece from PRI’s The World and the Pulitzer Center’s series on #globalcancer. Graphic by Kim Ducharme, Zia Sobhani.
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This info graphic shows how US global health funding would shake out for fiscal year 2014 under the Senate, House and White House’s plans. Thanks to amFAR the Foundation for AIDS Research for creating this easy way to compare all three approaches and see how devastating this sequester could be to the global HIV/AIDS fight.
And check out Science Magazine’s article about what the cuts mean to researchers who fund their work through federal money from the National Institutes of Health.
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Family Planning Is Key to Healthy Pregnancies and Births
According to a new report, the United States has the highest first-day death rate in the industrialized world. Addressing this and related problems will require comprehensive efforts to reduce pervasive economic, social, and health disparities.In the United States, an estimated 11,300 babies die each year on the day they are born, according to anew report from Save the Children. The United States has the highest first-day death rate in the industrialized world, and given its large population it has 50 percent more first-day deaths than all other industrialized countries combined. The alarming report has clear implications for U.S. policy, particularly the importance of investing in and expanding the reach of programs like Medicaid and Title X that make affordable pregnancy-related care and family planning services available to millions of women who are otherwise unable to obtain such care.
First-day deaths have many contributing factors, according to the report, including preterm, unplanned, and teen births. One in eight U.S. babies—a total of over half a million births each year—are born prematurely, and U.S. preterm births rank second only to Cyprus in the industrialized world. The report also notes that half of all U.S. pregnancies are unintended and that the U.S. adolescent birth rate is the highest among industrialized countries—with teenage mothers tending to be poorer, less educated, and receiving less prenatal care than older mothers.
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Photo Slideshow: Poverty in Today’s America
America’s poor are, unfortunately, often out of sight and out of mind. In the tradition of groundbreaking photojournalists like Jacob Riis, Dorothea LangeSeriously, go click through these. Read the captions. Sometimes, photographing poverty and homelessness feels like exploitation. This is not one of those times.
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Culture replaces authentic feeling with words. As an example of this, imagine an infant lying in its cradle, and the window is open, and into the room comes something, marvelous, mysterious, glittering, shedding light of many colors, movement, sound, a trans-formative hierophany of integrated perception and the child is enthralled and then the mother comes into the room and she says to the child, “that’s a bird, baby, that’s a bird,” instantly the complex wave of the angel peacock iridescent trans-formative mystery is collapsed, into the word. All mystery is gone, the child learns this is a bird, this is a bird, and by the time we’re five or six years old all the mystery of reality has been carefully tiled over with words. This is a bird, this is a house, this is the sky, and we seal ourselves in within a linguistic shell of dis-empowered perception.
Terence Mckenna (via alteringminds)
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Inspirational quote for the day. #help #dogood #drop #ocean #individual #satoro #together #group #cause
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May is Hepatitis Awareness Month! Check out this info graphic from Whitman-Walker Health in DC about the different types of hepatitis and the treatments available. Check out the CDC’s website to find a testing center near you.
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MSF Logistician Ben King building kites with the community. Afghanistan 2013 © Ben King
“My vision of this country before I arrived saw kites flying everywhere, filling the air with the exuberance of small boys interacting with others far beyond the high walls of their own compounds. A kind of invisible communication that creates infinitely strong bonds between the people and their country. My visions were true when I arrived, but as the temperatures began to plummet, the kites, one by one, disappeared from the crystal clear skies. Finally, though, it was our chance to try our hand at it…
For now, I will enjoy watching them dance about as a beacon of hope for a brighter future for this ever colourful and complex land”
Read more from Ben’s blog and leave questions and comments below his post.
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Learning How to Cough Around Drug-Resistant TB
Medecins Sans Frontiers counselor, Rano Safarova, tries to teach a group of children near Vose, Tajikistan, how to stop the spread of tuberculosis in their homes. Several members of this extended family have active TB including the 66-year-old grandmother, who’s the matriarch of the clan. The youngest victim in the family is a 4-year-old boy, who’s been left partially paralyzed and unable to speak from TB meningitis.
The grandmother refuses to accept that TB spreads through the air. She insists that the 4-year-old got it from swimming in a cold river.
“I have several concerns with this family,” says MSF nurse Tina Martin during a visit to the family’s cluster of mud-walled houses in southern Tajikistan. “Mostly I’m concerned with the level of education, the lack of understanding of what TB is and how it’s transmitted. This is highly concerning. This is a very close family. They live together, eat together, sleep together. And as TB is airborne transmission the family is reinfecting each other over and over.”
MSF is working to try to improve TB treatment for children in the Central Asian nation, particularly children infected with drug-resistant strains of the bacteria.
Photos: Jason Beaubien, NPR
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