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Tag Archives: malaria
Florence, Exavery, Katia: Patient portraits from Kenya
The door to the room is partially obscured by still-damp laundry hanging from a line in the alleyway adjacent to structure 53. A stream of human and animal waste courses through the mud on the threshold. Entry through the rough wooden door reveals a small dark room with a dirt floor chaotically and modestly furnished. A toddler and an infant sleep like spoons on a dingy bedsheet, and a coal-burning stove gutters weakly near the corrugated-metal external wall. Read More
Posted in Africa, Clinical care, From the Field, Kenya
Tagged HIV, Kibera, malaria, patients, sleeping sickness
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A special issue of the Lancet dedicated to malaria elimination
Last week, the Lancet published a special issue on malaria elimination. There’s a good summary of the eight articles on our colleague Naman Shah’s blog, topnaman. For more on what IGHID is doing to combat malaria, read here, here, and … Read More
Perception is everything: Americans and foreign aid
[This post sent in by Caitlin Riely Pardue who is a senior public policy major at UNC] For most Americans, improving international health is a top priority. When asked about foreign aid by the Kaiser Family Foundation, 6 in 10 … Read More
Posted in Global Health Policy, Students, USA
Tagged AIDS, American public, international development, malaria, poverty, surveys, tuberculosis
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“But you knew where you were going, and I didn’t”: making a movie in Malawi
[Post written by me, Lisa, your friendly blog editor] As communications director for IGHID, I spend a lot of time writing about and promoting UNC Project-Malawi, our flagship site in Lilongwe. So needless to say I was thrilled when I … Read More
Posted in Africa, From the Field, Malawi
Tagged antenatal HIV counseling, Bwaila Hospital, malaria, malaria vaccine, UNC Project-Malawi, video
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Congrats to Naman Shah, malaria blogger extraordinaire, for winning a Soros fellowship
Naman Shah is a third-year MD/PhD student in the UNC School of Medicine. He is also the man behind topnaman.com (see blogroll), one of only two malaria blogs on the web. The Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship supports graduate studies … Read More
A day in the life of a Malawian girl: a doctor’s perspective
[This post was submitted by UNC professor Ian B. K. Martin, MD. Martin is director of Global Emergency Medicine at UNC and recently returned from Malawi, where he was visiting UNC Project-Malawi and other organizations in Lilongwe.] Saturday, November 28, … Read More
Always remember Malawi
[Post sent in from Malawi by UNC senior Cameron Taylor] “Always Remember Malawi” is what I was given yesterday on a sticky note from one of the fieldworkers. Yesterday was one of those sad “goodbye days” where we had to … Read More
Recruiting for a malaria vaccine trial in Malawi – not quite what I expected
[Author Cameron Taylor ('10) is a Geography major at UNC. She is spending a second summer in Malawi conducting research.] Upon first hearing about a malaria vaccine trial, you do not automatically think traditional birth attendants, but for an upcoming … Read More
Will capitalism drive the future of global health?
Yesterday the institute co-sponsored (with Kenan-Flagler Business School) a lecture by Steven Phillips, the Medical Director for Global Issues and Projects at ExxonMobil, titled “Saving lives through the power of partnerships.” I think the very notion of business solutions to … Read More
Posted in Events, UNC campus
Tagged development, ExxonMobil, industry, lecture, malaria, NGOs, philanthropy, private sector
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