Tag: visit-patients
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Tanzania’s army of community health workers face mistrust as they roll out services
By Kizito Makoye DAR ES SALAAM (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – One of the biggest tests of Justine Michael’s job as a community health worker is not the distances he must travel along remote dirt roads to visit patients in Tanzania’s Mkuranga district, but rather the suspicion he often encounters. Michael is one of more than…
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Tanzania’s army of community health workers face mistrust as they roll out services
By Kizito Makoye DAR ES SALAAM (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – One of the biggest tests of Justine Michael’s job as a community health worker is not the distances he must travel along remote dirt roads to visit patients in Tanzania’s Mkuranga district, but rather the suspicion he often encounters. Michael is one of more than…
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Judge rejects doctors’ lawsuit against Quackwatch website
NEW YORK (AP) — A lawsuit brought by two pioneers in the anti-aging movement who said an online article about them suggests they’re quacks has been tossed out by a judge.
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Hong Kong confirms first case of Zika virus
By Reuters Staff HONG KONG (Reuters) – Hong Kong has confirmed its first case of Zika, putting the Asian financial center on high alert for any spread of the mosquito-borne virus that has wreaked havoc in Latin America, the Caribbean and beyond. At a media conference late on Thursday, Controller of the Centre for Health…