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In many countries, people treat three quarters of all illnesses by using medicines without first seeing a health worker. This is called ‘self-medication’. They may obtain medicines from their home, friends or relatives, a market stall, local shop, traditional healer or a pharmacy. Though some of these sources may provide good quality and appropriate medicines, others may supply inappropriate and potentially dangerous medicines.
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Treatment of leg ulcersby Dr Sherri Kirkpatrick. Children in many Third World countries suffer from painful leg ulcers. One group of school-age children in Chiba, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, decided to take action and asked for help. Some of the children had legs covered with scars from previous ulcers – sometimes their legs were either deformed or crippled from the effects. All suffered pain from current weeping leg ulcers. The children knew that the Community Health Workers ...
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In answer to Sister Claffey’s plea for help to identify and cure the cause of a new disease affecting Prosopis (commonly known as iron tree) and Parkia (locust bean) in Benue State, Nigeria, I think I can help.
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Since 1974 the Brazilian government introduced the ‘Lifelong Monthly Income’ – a pension scheme for all older people, whether or not they paid contributions. Our research has found that nearly 75% of older people in Recife actually support their whole families on this pension because the young people are unemployed.
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by Renu Sherchan. The nutrition worker entered the small village house and found what looked like a living skeleton. His name was Som Bahadur Tamang. He was five years old. His mother had left him when he was ten months old and his father was struggling to raise him.
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An example from oral health by Neil McDonald. Nepal is one of the world’s ten poorest countries, with just $6 available from the government budget to provide healthcare for each person every year. The treatment of infectious diseases of the chest and bowels swallows all of this money. Who cares about teeth?
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by Neil McDonald. Two-thirds of the world’s healthcare professionals work in industrialised countries amongst one-third of the world’s people. This means that many poor people have little access to healthcare services. The situation is a challenge to both planners and health workers in low income countries.
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by João Martinez da Cruz. PRAIDS, an organisation dedicated to the care of people with HIV/AIDS in São Paulo, Brazil, realised that their management staff, workers and volunteers needed help to carry out their jobs adequately and to achieve all that was expected of them. For example, the workers expected management staff to deal effectively and efficiently with any problems facing the organisation on their behalf.
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When Rodrigo Baggio first began talking about starting computer schools in the favelas or shanty towns of Rio de Janeiro, people told him computers weren’t for the poor, but for the middle classes.
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Severe disease problems on bananas worldwide are making it increasingly difficult for smaller producers to continue cultivating this crop. An enthusiastic banana specialist has dedicated his life to working on producing excellent quality bananas, aimed at improving production and disease resistance for small banana producers. Now, five new hybrid plants are available from Honduras. They are all semi-dwarf, resistant to nematodes and most common diseases and are very productive:
