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Health case studies

  • Beating tuberculosis  : Using Direct Observation Treatment (DOTS) a World Health Organisation strategy to address the increasing incidence of tuberculosis
  • Facing the global challenge of HIV/AIDS, Vietnam  : An HIV/AIDS education project that aimed to spread the message about preventing HIV/AIDS along major transport route
  • Health care for Tibetan villages  : A program to address public health problems and improve the water supply, funded by the governments of Australia and the People's Republic of China
  • Managing mozzies  : The Pacific Regional Vector Borne Disease Project addressed the problems of malaria, dengue and lymphatic filariasis in Fiji, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu & other Pacific islands
  • Caring for mothers, caring for children.  : New partnerships in delivering Primary Health Care have achieved the MDGs 4 and 5, maternal and child health, in a remote province in Laos
  • Combating malaria in the Solomon Islands  :  A multi-pronged approach to combating malaria is improving life and development for people in the Solomon Islands.

 They walk for days through the highlands of Papua New Guinea, carrying a pack full of supplies, through rivers, knee-deep mud and mountain passes. But they're not a group of Australian trekkers challenging themselves along the infamous Kokoda Track, they're a group of very committed PNG health workers going to see their patients. And they're being funded as part of Australia's development program in PNG.




 
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