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April 28, 2014

What if Your Mother-In-Law Decided When You Got Pregnant?

Fatima Haroon, 26, gets ready for Friday afternoon prayers at her home in Lahore, Pakistan. She wraps a patterned scarf around her head and

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April 25, 2014

Nigeria, others Benefit From P&G’s 7 Billion Litres of Clean Drinking Water

Nigeria has been listed as one of the several countries that benefited from  Procter & Gamble’s (P&G) 7 billion litres of clean drinking water

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April 23, 2014

Swaziland to ‘Cut’ 4 000 School Boys

Over 4000 Swazi high school boys registered for voluntary medical male circumcision this April in a bid to reduce risks of catching HIV, thanks

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April 22, 2014

Are There Real Best Buys in Global Health?

Last month, PSI released its latest quarterly issue of Impactmagazine. In it, PSI and its issue partners Devex, Path, and Merck for Mothers, asked

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April 15, 2014

500 Infants Circumcised in Government Programme

The ministry was working together with the Population Services International (PSI) on the programme. PSI director for voluntary medical male circumcision Ngonidzashe Madidi said

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April 14, 2014

Local Volunteers Key to Vietnam TB Effort

When Nguyen Thi Hong Hanh first noticed she was running a fever, she didn’t think much of it. The 26-year-old Vietnamese factory worker bought

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April 13, 2014

Public Enemy Number One: Drug Resistant Malaria

Global health organisation Population Services International plays a leading role in preventing and treating malaria in Myanmar – treating about 250,000 people every year

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April 10, 2014

The Female Condom Is the Next Big Thing in Safe Sex

1. EXCITEMENT In 1987, an American pharmaceutical executive called Mary Ann Leeper flew to Copenhagen to get a firsthand look at what she thought

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April 10, 2014

Zimbabwe: Male Celebrities Get Circumcised in Response to HIV

Musicians and soccer stars are among a group of Zimbabwean celebrities who have undergone male circumcision as a symbolic and practical act to fight

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April 8, 2014

Managing Primary Health Care at Scale: Myanmar’s Sun Quality Network

Since the early sixties the people of Myanmar lived under various forms of military rule. Health indicators stagnated at low levels, and progress towards

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April 2, 2014

Malawi Records No Cholera Case in Two Years

The Ministry of Health says the country has had no cholera cases in the past two years. “From our records, it shows that we

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April 2, 2014

A Revolution Without Boundaries

Time passes quickly. I met Marie* in 2008 on my first trip to the Democratic Republic of the Congo with the global health organization

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March 27, 2014

LIBERIA: USAID-IWASH Program Delivers Materials to Prevent Potential Ebola Spread

Along the Liberia-Guinea border, where six suspected Ebola cases have occurred, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) funded Improved Water, Sanitation and

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March 26, 2014

People + Technology as a Best Investment

Gib Bulloch, founder and global managing director of Accenture Development Partnerships, is all about putting money into ideas that work. In an interview with PSI

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March 25, 2014

Helpline for TB Care Launched in Punjab

A toll free TB helpline — designated microscopic centre (DMC) helpline — was launched in Punjab on Monday by Dr Karanjeet Singh, director, health

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March 21, 2014

7 Takeways Trom #BestBuys4GH

In global health, there’s no dearth of so-called “best buys.” The main question is which one to use, for whom, and for which purpose.

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March 19, 2014

Let’s Go The Distance: Investing In Partnerships For A Healthier Future

Today’s global health challenges are increasingly urgent and complex, cutting across national boundaries and traditional development silos. Think about the impact of climate change,

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March 18, 2014

The Best Buys in Global Health: Striking the Effective Balance

In this issue of PSI’s Impact magazine, Devex, Merck for Mothers and PATH joined my organization PSI and a team of experts to uncover

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March 17, 2014

Celebrity Circumcision Campaign Paying Off

Population Services International (PSI) deputy country director, Karin Hatzold said responses to the male circumcision campaign had improved among the rural populace following the

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March 7, 2014

How the ‘Avon’ Model Is Empowering Women to ‘Inspire Change’ in Madagascar

The first International Women’s Day (IWD), aimed at both celebrating the extraordinary social, political and economic achievements of women, and directing a spotlight on

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March 4, 2014

The Future of Safe Sex?

Once mocked as having the erotic appeal of a jellyfish, the female condom is being reinvented as the next big thing in protective sex.

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February 28, 2014

The Procter & Gamble Company : USAID and P&G Kick Off Global Development Alliance to Improve Health in Myanmar

Administrator Shah yesterday helped deliver the first liter of clean drinking water under the Global Development Alliance (GDA) between the US Agency for International

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February 27, 2014

By enacting discriminatory laws in Uganda and Nigeria, health is put at risk.

A statement from Karl Hofmann, PSI President and CEO PSI believes that all people share equal human rights and that no person should be

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