THE IMPORTANCE OF HEALTH INSURANCE AND THE SAFETY NET IN RURAL COMMUNITIES

Access to health insurance and health care are critical for people living in rural communities, where the safety net is fragile. However, rural communities face challenges as they enroll uninsured people in the health insurance marketplace, educate newly insured individuals on how to use insurance, and coordinate care for those who remain uninsured.

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MALARIA SCREENER: HARNESSING SMARTPHONE TECHNOLOGY TO AUTOMATE MALARIA DIAGNOSTICS

Malaria continues to be a global challenge to population health, and the scale of the problem is driven by a lack of trained personnel and equipment to speed up diagnostic processes in resource-limited settings. The development of applications and processes to automate malaria diagnosis may circumvent this hurdle, allowing for more rapid treatment of patients

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DNA FROM SALIVA IS A RELIABLE SAMPLE TYPE FOR MALARIA DETECTION

Globally, malaria is still a major problem with approximately 3.3 billion people living in areas at risk of malaria transmission in 106 countries (Centers for Disease Control, 2012). Most of those affected by malaria are young children and pregnant women residing in sub-Saharan Africa. When I was growing up in Lake Victoria, in western Kenya, I would watch kids die of malaria.

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ASPIRIN MAY REDUCE DEATHS IN SEVERE COVID-19

Another studyTrusted Source found that many of these patients had unusually “sticky” blood that tended to coagulate easily. “As we learned about the connection between blood clots and COVID-19, we knew that aspirin — used to prevent stroke and heart attack — could be important for COVID-19 patients,” says Jonathan Chow, M.D

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NOMADS IN MALI FACE BARRIERS TO HEALTH CARE

We are sharing the abstract of a just published article by Moussa Sangare and colleagues entitled, “Factors hindering health care delivery in nomadic communities: a cross-sectional study in Timbuktu, Mali,” that appears in BMC Public Health.

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