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The 28 September 2023 pre-conference sessions "Reaching the marginalized through a PHC approach towards ending communicable diseases" will provide a platform for a dynamic conversation between WHO leadership, representatives from community based organizations and primary health care (PHC) professionals connecting strategies, community experiences and the PHC workforce.

Community goes a long way in pandemics.

 E-Mail A breast cancer therapy that requires just one shot of radiotherapy is as effective as traditional radiotherapy, and avoids potential damage to nearby organs, according to a paper by UCL experts. The results, published in the British Journal of Cancer, mean that eight out of ten patients who receive the treatment, TARGIT-IORT, will not need a long course of post-operative external beam radiotherapy (EBRT). These results strengthen and expand previously published outcomes. Patients w...

COMMENT A billboard with the image of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro is seen vandalised with red paint and faeces as a protest of his management of the pandemic. Photograph: Getty POLITICS and the pandemic. Everywhere across the world the two are currently inextricably connected. But perhaps nowhere have they created the sort of “perfect storm” and potential catastrophe as the one bearing down on the giant Latin American country of Brazil right now. As I know from personal experienc...

  Politics and the pandemic. Everywhere across the world the two are currently inextricably connected. But perhaps nowhere have they created the sort of “perfect storm” and potential catastrophe as the one bearing down on the giant Latin American country of Brazil.  As I know from personal experience of travelling in the region, relocating the remains of people buried years ago is not uncommon in this part of the world.   But that process has taken on a new urgency in Brazil whe...

 E-Mail The spread of COVID-19 in Brazil overwhelmed the health systems in all the countrys regions, particularly in areas where they were already fragile, according to a collaborative effort involving the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), an institution supported by the "la Caixa" Foundation, the University of Sao Paulo, the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, the DOr Institute of Research and Education and the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation. The findings, published in The Lancet...

Nearly 40 percent of hospitalized COVID-19 patients in Brazil died of the virus as the nations health care system was inundated with coronavirus cases last year, a new study estimates.