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Global Health: The Strength of Nations
Global Health: The Strength of Nations
Pages 47-54
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Better Science = Better Health The American scientific community has a strong commitment to activities that will strengthen and support science in developing countries. The IOM's African Science Academy Development Initiative directly supports eight African academies of science in building their capacity to provide independent, evidencebased advice to their governments and countries on health-related matters, much as the IOM does for the United States.
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By creating similar scientific bodies, Africa can secure a healthy population that is critical to its future as well as the world's. HIV/AIDS: Toward a Sustainable Response In 2003, Congress passed the United States Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Act, establishing a five-year, $15 billion initiative to help countries around the world respond to their AIDS epidemics.
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These strategies will help enable PEPFAR to have lasting impact on the focus countries' AIDS epidemics. Making the transition to sustainability will require continuity with the established program but also improvement and greater flex PEPFAR's network model.
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, the committee described a series of appropriate, realistic actions that would help LMCs diminish the toll that cancer takes on their citizens. These opportunities include • signing and ratifying the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control to tackle the most significant cause of cancer and other noncommunicable diseases; • supporting measures to reduce the cancer burden related to infectious agents, responsible for one-quarter of all cancer deaths in LMCs; • developing resource-level-appropriate guidelines for the overall man agement of cancers whose treatment can make a substantial difference to a large proportion of patients; • creating cancer centers of excellence in these regions, which can lever age international partnerships; • treating highly curable childhood cancers; 50
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problem The United States shares a great deal with its neighbors, and the global community is joined more tightly every day. As neighbors, Mexico and the United States are particularly united as they share residents, trade, and culture while at the same time maintaining their own cultural, social, and political uniqueness.
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Participants suggested the creation of a Mexican National Obesity Task Force in order to • increase awareness of the problem; • conduct assessment of human resources; • develop and implement a national policy for obesity prevention; • increase community participation; • build trust among various sectors; • provide decision makers with recommendations based on science; and • develop prevention strategies. The workshop also identified areas in which the United States and Mexico could collaborate, including advocacy, funding, a trained labor force, collection of scientific evidence, program evaluation, and consistency in programs and messages.
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Of those, 78 percent live in developing or transitional countries. The sharing of contaminated injecting equipment has become one of the driving forces behind the global AIDS epidemic and is the primary transmission vector in many countries, particularly throughout Eastern Europe, the Commonwealth of Independent States, and significant parts of Asia.
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There is strong evidence, for example, that two opioid agonist medications -- methadone and buprenorphine -- are effective in treating dependence on opioids such as heroin. This IOM report provided evidence-based recommendations regarding drug dependence treatment, sterile needle and syringe access, and outreach and educa tion.
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