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Global healthcare

A comparison of healthcare provision in the United States, China and Cuba
  • Ghanaian fans

    How one Ghanaian town sprayed away 74% of malaria cases in two years

    The impact of malaria on productivity led one mining company to implement a comprehensive anti-malaria programme, now used in 22 districts. Sue George reports on the Obuasi model

  • 29-year-old Poeun Pech, an HIV positive mother of two boys, holds her cocktail of ARVs at a hospital

    Getting medicines to the poor: solving the logistics challenge

    Why can Coca-Cola get to rural communities and essential health supplies can't? Join our online debate on how to address global health supply chain challenges, Thursday 18 July at 1pm BST

  • Manila slum

    The goal: universal health coverage. The means: volunteers?

    Matthias Schmale makes the case for volunteers delivering universal health coverage – but cautions they must not be seen as a replacement for qualified health providers

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    Universal healthcare: 14 steps in the right direction

    From innovative financing to national income surveys, our expert panel offer some important lessons in developing affordable and sustainable universal health coverage

  • armers carry wheat crop bundles at Kisari village, near Allahabad in India

    Asian Development Bank will focus on lending to tackle inequality, says MD

    Rajat Nag says the bank plans to make more loans for education and health, rather than infrastructure, to address rising inequalty and boost inclusive economic growth across Asia

  • Why Poverty: Give us the Money

    Documentary-makers join forces to expose the evil of global poverty

    Directors of films in the forthcoming BBC series Why Poverty? explain how they tackled the subject and what it taught them

  • Child's eye: 'When I see her things it makes me cry'

    Binta's daughter Khadijatu was one year and four months old when she died of suspected malaria in Kroo Bay, Sierra Leone – a country where one in four children dies from preventable diseases before their fifth birthday

  • Sarah Boseley

    Where lives are cheap

    Sarah Boseley

    Sarah Boseley: As the UK and US dither over the cervical cancer vaccine, thousands die in places it's needed most

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