In Charleston, South Carolina, where a bus ride is two dollars for a one-way trip and the cheapest apartments go for hundreds of dollars a month, the idea of living on $1.90 a day is hard to swallow.
Global Health News and Events
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MUSC Global Health Week: March 26-30th
 Imagine a world where every person has access to health care. Where malaria has been eradicated. Where hundreds of millions of people no longer suffer from TB. Where no mother or child dies from preventable causes. From soccer to point of care diagnostics, a growing number of innovative interventions are improving access to high-quality health care for vulnerable populations worldwide. Don’t miss this weeklong series of events, sponsored by the MUSC Center for Global Health, to hear leaders in the field discuss how they are tackling unique global health challenges. |
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The Post & Courier: Do no harm? The pros and cons of short term missions
As a Peace Corps volunteer, Ginny Fonner worked in a rural village in Zambia, a southern African country with a severe shortage of doctors. While there, a short-term mission group visited. Their goal: distribute medicines to fight intestinal worms. “It’s a great goal. Worms are a big problem,” she said during a recent global health symposium at the Medical University of South Carolina. “So they spent day after day going to schools, distributing treatments, feeling really good about it." Except for one thing. |
Global partners come together to combat heart disease in East Africa
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MUSC Center for Global Health awarded $3.1 million NIH grant to study an integrated approach to HIV prevention
The Medical University of South Carolina Center for Global Health has received a $3.1 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to study an integrated approach to screening and treatment for HIV, diabetes and hypertension in Tanzania. In an earlier pilot study, this approach resulted in a 97 percent increase in HIV testing over twelve months. This new, five-year trial is a collaborative effort between MUSC, Clemson University and Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences in Tanzania. |
Ashley Hall Students Reflect on MUSC Global Health Symposium
Teachers at Ashley Hall are always looking for innovative learning opportunities for their students. That’s one of the many reasons Allison Bowden and Patricia Kamua brought 51 high school students from their honors biology and chemistry classes to MUSC’s Global and Public Health Symposium this winter. Students had the chance to hear from world-renowned experts in the field about many of the facets affecting global health - from socio-economics, cultural challenges to |
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Building Healthy Communities Through Global Innovation and Partnership
Thursday, November 10, 2016 8:45 am Registration and Coffee |
Save the Date: Building Healthy Communities Through Global Innovation & Partnership: November 10th
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Call For Student Poster Submissions for MUSC Global & Public Health Symposium
MUSC Global and Public Health Symposium |
Survey of HIV Testing at Nairobi VAP Football Tournaments
Despite major progress over the last three decades, HIV/AIDS remains a major health problem in Sub-Saharan Africa. According to The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV and AIDS (UNAIDS), of the 35 million people living with HIV in the world, 19 million do not know their HIV status. HIV testing and counseling (HTC) continues to be a vital first step so people who test positive are linked to treatment and care, and those who need antiretroviral therapy (ART) are successfully placed on treatment to achieve viral suppression. |
Ebola. Zika. HIV. Malaria. Tuberculosis. These diseases dominate headlines and present serious public health issues in developing countries. Yet heart disease, once thought to affect only wealthy countries, is a rapidly growing epidemic in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC). Cardiovascular disease (CVD) remains the No.
