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The Top 10 Global Health Issues to Watch in 2013

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  1. The growing role of frontline health workers
  2. The need for more community health workers
  3. The rebirth of family planning
  4. Helping even more children to live longer
  5. AIDS: getting to zero
  6. The continuing fight against malaria
  7. Eradicating polio
  8. The global burden of non-communicable diseases
  9. Safety for health workers during conflicts
  10. Mobile health and new technologies

6 talks on good design: TEDx honors the Global Public Interest Design 100 winners

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Public Interest Design is a movement that seeks to recognize and celebrate architects, designers, and planners who work for social good. This month, the organization released the Global Public Interest Design 100, cataloging 100 designers who are changing the lives of people in need.

Here at TEDx, we were pleased to find quite a few of our speakers among the honorees. Below, we highlight just a small sample of those speakers. Get ready for 6 talks about the power of design to create change in the world.

The next generation of global health: Barbara Bush at TEDxBrooklyn

As she finished up her college career, Barbara Bush, daughter of former president George W. Bush, saw an opportunity to make a mark in the world — by asking members of her generation to join her in changing the face of public health. At TEDxBrooklyn, she explains how she got here, and tells the stories of some of the designers and planners working for her organization, Global Health Corps.

From PID: Barbara Bush is co-founder and CEO of Global Health Corps, which places and engages fellows—like Rwandan architects Christian Benimana and Commode Dushimimana of MASS Design Group—in developing nations to work towards improving health outcomes for the poor.

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“Imagine a life where you live on less than two dollars a day. You have been saving for months to afford a trip to the health clinic. With your payment in hand, you walk three hours to get to the nearest clinic, carrying your young children with you. When you finally arrive, you want to be able to receive information and testing for HIV and also pick up contraception to prevent pregnancy, but you’re told that the clinic does not provide both services. You can get tested for HIV, but you’ll have to walk an additional 20 miles to a separate clinic to obtain contraceptives. Unable to cover the distance, you are forced to return home without the contraception that you want and need. Unfortunately, this is the reality for many of the most vulnerable women and girls in developing countries, where sexual and reproductive health (SRH) and HIV-related information and services are often housed in separate facilities. But the evidence is clear: the best way to deliver timely, comprehensive sexual and reproductive health care that women want and need is through integrated services.”

—Integrated Reproductive and Sexual Health Services Make Good Sense | RH Reality Check
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