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Living Sick And Dying Young In Rich America
Chronic illness is the new first-world problem. Read More »
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Lost Among Us: New Veterans Programs Aim To Reach Homeless And Mentally Ill
It is a mighty goal — to end veteran homelessness by 2016. Sounds a bit lofty even. But the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has been putting its money where its PR is. Read More »
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Madeleine Ball: An Inspiration In Open Medicine And Free Software
Madeleine Ball is an inspiration to anyone who thinks individuals should control the software and medical information that define our lives. I’m happy to honor her for this year’s Ada Lovelace Day, when we share the stories of women in science, technology, engineering, and math that inspire us. Read More »
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Mobile Health Around The Globe: Ghana - Changing The Very Essence Of Healthcare
Ghana faces some serious challenges when it comes to healthcare delivery.
As the Austrian Red Cross points out, although the country has a population of nearly 23.5 million people, there are only 1,439 health care facilities, unevenly distributed across the country. Read More »
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Mobile Phones Effective In Collecting Data From HIV-Positive Pregnant Women
Mobile phones were found both to be acceptable and feasible in the collection of maternal and child health data from women living with HIV in South Africa, according to an article in the Journal of Medical Internet Research. Read More »
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New App May Help Pregnant Women Around The World
An award-winning app developed in the Bay Area aims to help pregnant women stay healthy and reduce the number of maternal deaths worldwide. Read More »
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News At IDS - October 2013
During Open Access week 2013, IDS is pleased to announce that we are in the process of digitising onto OpenDocs (our open access repository) our entire back catalogue of almost 2000 research reports, working papers, practice papers, and other series... Read More »
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Open Source Health Inc. Names Fred Trotter As Chief Operating Officer
Open Source Health Inc. (CSE:OSH) a digital integrated healthcare company dedicated to advancing life-long solutions for women's health and wellness is pleased to announce the appointment of Fred Trotter as Chief Operating Officer (COO). Fred has served as an advisor to Open Source Health since December 2013. Read More »
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Open-Access Harassment: Science, Technology And Women
The working cultures and structures of science and technology may be different, but they both feed sexist myths of meritocracy Read More »
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Shutdown Leaves Program Feeding Women And Infants In Lurch
Among those affected by the chaos of the government shutdown are 9 million low-income women and children who may be worrying where next week's meal is going to come from. Read More »
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Study Of Men’s Falling Income Cites Single Parents
The decline of two-parent households may be a significant reason for the divergent fortunes of male workers, whose earnings generally declined in recent decades, and female workers, whose earnings generally increased, a prominent labor economist argues in a new survey of existing research. Read More »
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The Internet, SMS, and Participatory Health
Serina Kalande (@serina_k) is a volunteer with Rising Voices, where she has lead the Blogging Positively project. The project began almost as soon as Global Voices itself. It’s a collection of HIV-positive bloggers and those blogging about HIV AIDS. You can view a map of this network here... Read More »
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Top 5 Things Angie Bryon Loves About Drupal
Angie Byron is an advocate for Drupal. Commonly known online as webchick, she is a Drupal core co-maintainer. She has her finger on the pulse of the community, helping to manage over 1,600 contributors from all over the world. Read More »
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U.S. Ranks 23rd For Women’s Equality, Falling Behind Nicaragua, Cuba, and Burundi
In the 2013 World Economic Forum (WEF) Global Gender Gap Report, which measures women’s economic, political, educational, and health equality, the United States ranks at number 23 out of 136 countries around the world. The country falls behind many Nordic countries as well as Nicaragua, Cuba, and Burundi, among others.
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USHAHIDI: An Important Tool To Keep Track Incidences Of GBV
Four training sessions were organized on the use of Ushahidi and Gender Based Violence (GBV) data collection, on December 18th and 26th, 27th and 28th. They were attended by 108 commune/sangkat councilors and members of commune/sangkat committees in charge of women and children in Phnom Penh, Battambang, Siem Reap and Kampong Thom province. Read More »
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