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Global health Rex Tillerson shouldn’t cut global AIDS funding. Here’s why.Read more
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Global health Helping countries transition from donor aid for health: recent experience at the Global FundRead more
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post Silent killers: the scourge of noncommunicable diseases in Africa by Kofi GunuRead more
By Kofi Gunu When global health leaders gather in Geneva this month to elect a new head of the World Health…
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post Where do the (3) candidates for the next WHO Director General stand on the most challenging global health issues of the decade?Read more
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post Opinion: Who should lead WHO (Pt. 3 of 3)? Dr. David Nabarro, “a frontline clinician and global health leader”Read more
[Featured image above: New Guinea Ebola vaccine trials; WHO/S. Hawkey] The views expressed in this blog post belong solely to its author…