Poor health care system plagues Myanmar
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They travel for days though checkpoints, across dangerous roads and past Myanmar's bribe-hungry soldiers to make it to the Thai border. They're not refugees fleeing the junta Â they simply want to see a doctor.
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WASHINGTON -- Routine failure to provide needed health care in the United States came with the price tag of $1.8 billion in additional medical costs and up to 79,000 avoidable deaths, according to a new study.
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A total of 338,911 people in Myanmar were estimated to have been infected with HIV as of this year, according to a latest figures disclosed by the Ministry of Health.
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MAE SOT, Thailand  - Aid workers have discovered the first cases of "extensively drug resistant" TB among migrants from Myanmar, intensifying fears about untreatable infectious diseases propagating in the army-ruled former Burma.
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THE government is to target deprived areas - including Manchester - where poor families suffer more ill health. Health Secretary John Reid spotlighted the city when he unveiled his health White Paper in the Commons yesterday.
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YANGON (dpa) - Myanmar&#39;s opposition party on Thursday warned that the ruling military junta must take full responsibility for the security and health of Nobel peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi after it removed her private security guards and reduced doctor
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With a comprehensive immigration overhaul now perhaps years away, Latin American governments concerned with the well-being of their nationals living in this country are taking on an equally thorny issue: the U.S. health-care system.
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About 400,000 toddlers die every year in China mainly because of a lack of medical care, a member of a government advisory group said on Wednesday, urging greater investment in the health system.
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CHARKHAI, Bangladesh -- The village doctor's diagnosis was dire: Marium needed immediate surgery to replace two heart valves.
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The condition of hospitalised Indonesian ex-leader Suharto is getting worse, his doctors say.
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China's health care system is struggling to keep pace with the country's economic growth and faces a major challenge in looking after its 1.3 billion people, the health minister said on Monday.
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For a third straight year, poverty rose and the gap in health coverage widened, posing a challenge for the incumbent president.
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One billion people in tropical countries are still suffering from debilitating and disfiguring diseases associated with poverty, but many remain untreated due to official neglect, health officials said on Wednesday.
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Areas of the health service in Wales are performing worse since being run by the Welsh assembly, a report says.
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BRUSSELS, Sep 15 (IPS) - Developed countries are failing to live up to their  commitments to fund sexual and reproductive health care leaving  poorer countries to pick up the bill, says a new UN report  released Wednesday.
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Another disheartening event has taken place in Myanmar (Burma). Prime Minister Khin Nyunt, No. 3 in the hierarchy of the military junta, was replaced with First Secretary Soe Win, a reputed protege of Than
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Former Indonesian leader Suharto is in a worsening condition, according to members of his medical team.