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Researchers have identified various successful and promising interventions from around the world that could be used to improve opportunities for regular physical activity and encourage more people to be physically active.
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Information and communication technologies, especially mobile phones, could be an effective way of encouraging millions of people worldwide to become more physically active.
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The high prevalence, global reach, and colossal harms of physical inactivity means it should be recognised as pandemic, according to a paper in The Lancet.
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With the world’s biggest sporting showcase kicking off in London Friday, researchers are warning that physical inactivity has become a contributor to the burden of disease similar to tobacco smoking or obesity, responsible for 5,3 million of the 57 million deaths that occurred globally in 2008.
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Worldwide, around a third of adults (about 1,5 billion people) and four out of five adolescents are failing to do the recommended amount of physical activity, placing them at a 20 to 30 percent greater risk of heart disease, diabetes, and some types of cancer.
An international team of researchers examined the current understanding of why some people are more physically active than others.
The People’s Health Movement South Africa issued a statement and call to action at its first national health assembly (NHA) which preceded the Global People ¹s Health Assembly held in Cape Town earlier this month.
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria announced new results today that show a significant increase in treatment of HIV and in the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV.
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A TB drug combination that killed 99 percent of patients’ bacteria in two weeks could cure TB in record time and cut treatment costs by 90 percent.
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‘We believe that after six months, our patients will have become strong so they can go back and do their usual work,’ said Esther Oduli, a social worker in Western Kenya, who works for the Academic Model Providing Access to Healthcare (AMPATH).
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When the International AIDS Conference was last held in Washington, D.C. in 1987, Ronald Reagan was U.S. president, the Soviet Union stood, a wall scarred a divided Berlin and China’s economy was roughly the size of Spain’s. The wider world ‘ and the AIDS epidemic ‘ has changed more than anyone foresaw. By David Wilson
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Despite substantial progress in tackling the HIV epidemic worldwide in the past two decades, there is one population in which the epidemic continues to grow in countries of all incomes: men who have sex with men (MSM). A six-part Series by THE LANCET, explore the unique aspects of the HIV epidemic in MSM, showing that factors such as the biology of HIV transmission in anal sex and the characteristics of MSM networks, as well as known behavioural factors, are driving the epidemic in this population.