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This is the often agonizing, sudden death in pregnancy or childbirth, and it takes the lives, needlessly in most cases, of more than half a mi </div> </div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="dateColumnValue"> <div class="newsitem"> <h3>October 1, 2007 </h3> <div class="newsdesc"> <p> <a href="/web/20080725024556/http://www.dcp2.org/features/56/grow-old-along-with-meand-690-million-other-people-by-2030" id="title"> Grow Old Along With Me--And 690 Million Other People by 2030<br/> </a> </p> Widespread success at overcoming the major public health challenges of the past is creating a major public health challenge for the future. </div> </div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="dateColumnValue"> <div class="newsitem"> <h3>August 13, 2007 </h3> <div class="newsdesc"> <p> <a href="/web/20080725024556/http://www.dcp2.org/features/54/the-generic-gamble-developing-countries-hope-india-will-remain-a-major-supplier-of-lowcost-drugs-despite-controversy-over-patent-rules" id="title"> The Generic Gamble: Developing countries hope India will remain a major supplier of low-cost drugs, despite controversy over patent rules<br/> </a> </p> For now, India remains a leading supplier of low-cost generic drugs. But even so, the recent ruling of the Madras High Court that rejected a bid by Novartis to tighten the country's patent laws for brand-name products left many questions unanswered. </div> </div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="dateColumnValue"> <div class="newsitem"> <h3>July 20, 2007 </h3> <div class="newsdesc"> <p> <a href="/web/20080725024556/http://www.dcp2.org/features/51/preventing-cervical-cancer-deaths-how-to-save-4-million-lives-in-ten-years" id="title"> Preventing Cervical Cancer Deaths: How to save 4 million lives in ten years<br/> </a> </p> Among the most tragic public health failures of the last decade are the preventable deaths of young women in developing countries from maternal mortality and cervical cancer. </div> </div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="dateColumnValue"> <div class="newsitem"> <h3>July 13, 2007 </h3> <div class="newsdesc"> <p> <a href="/web/20080725024556/http://www.dcp2.org/features/50/malawi-overcoming-health-system-hurdles" id="title"> Malawi: Overcoming Health System Hurdles<br/> </a> </p> Health systems are failing to meet the needs of the most vulnerable in Africa. In many cases, health care services either do not exist or are not reaching the people who need them... </div> </div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="dateColumnValue"> <div class="newsitem"> <h3>July 6, 2007 </h3> <div class="newsdesc"> <p> <a href="/web/20080725024556/http://www.dcp2.org/features/49/reducing-adult-deaths-from-chronic-diseases-in-asia-evidence-and-opportunities" id="title"> Reducing Adult Deaths From Chronic Diseases in Asia: Evidence and Opportunities<br/> </a> </p> Martin Wolf, the noted columnist for the Financial Times, recently commented that the economic rise of China and India was nothing less than a fundamental realignment of the global order... </div> </div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="dateColumnValue"> <div class="newsitem"> <h3>July 2, 2007 </h3> <div class="newsdesc"> <p> <a href="/web/20080725024556/http://www.dcp2.org/features/48/newborn-survival-a-snapshot-of-progress-since-2005" id="title"> Newborn Survival: A Snapshot of Progress Since 2005<br/> </a> </p> Each year at least 4 million newborn babies die--an unacceptably high number given that low-cost solutions exist to save these lives. </div> </div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="dateColumnValue"> <div class="newsitem"> <h3>June 23, 2007 </h3> <div class="newsdesc"> <p> <a href="/web/20080725024556/http://www.dcp2.org/features/47/clearing-the-smog-fighting-air-pollution-in-mexico-city-mexico-and-so-paulo-brazil" id="title"> Clearing the Smog: Fighting Air Pollution in Mexico City, Mexico, and S茫o Paulo, Brazil<br/> </a> </p> Lidia Reyes spent much of 2006 in the hospital. Her children, ages 7, 13, and 17, suffered several asthma attacks during the year, and needed to be hospitalized between five and eight days each time. </div> </div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="dateColumnValue"> <div class="newsitem"> <h3>June 15, 2007 </h3> <div class="newsdesc"> <p> <a href="/web/20080725024556/http://www.dcp2.org/features/45/bhutan-when-environment-drives-public-health-policies" id="title"> Bhutan: When Environment Drives Public Health Policies<br/> </a> </p> From its cold, high Himalayan valleys to the belt of semitropical terrain facing the tea plantations of northeastern India, the isolated, landlocked kingdom of Bhutan presents public health officials with environmental challenges every day. </div> </div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="dateColumnValue"> <div class="newsitem"> <h3>June 8, 2007 </h3> <div class="newsdesc"> <p> <a href="/web/20080725024556/http://www.dcp2.org/features/44/disease-control-priorities-essential-surgical-services-in-africa" id="title"> Disease Control Priorities: Essential Surgical Services in Africa<br/> </a> </p> Disease Control Priorities in Developing Countries, 2nd edition, shows that surgical services provided in low-cost district hospitals in resource-constrained countries are highly cost-effective. </div> </div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="dateColumnValue"> <div class="newsitem"> <h3>May 21, 2007 </h3> <div class="newsdesc"> <p> <a href="/web/20080725024556/http://www.dcp2.org/features/40/efforts-to-write-tobacco-control-laws-meet-resistance-in-kenya" id="title"> Efforts to Write Tobacco Control Laws Meet Resistance in Kenya<br/> </a> </p> Lucy Achieng is lucky to be alive after she quit smoking 14 years ago. Achieng, a 46-year-old mother of three and a manager at a local company in Nairobi, says there is nothing glamorous about smoking. </div> </div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="dateColumnValue"> <div class="newsitem"> <h3>May 20, 2007 </h3> <div class="newsdesc"> <p> <a href="/web/20080725024556/http://www.dcp2.org/features/42/dcpp-finds-an-eager-audience-in-journalists-links-to-information-and-resources-facilitates-evidencebased-reporting" id="title"> DCPP Finds an Eager Audience in Journalists: Links to Information and Resources Facilitates Evidence-Based Reporting<br/> </a> </p> The news media around the world play two important roles?educator and watchdog. 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