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Communicable diseases: Key challenges and potential solutions

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Woman in El Daein administering vaccination © Albert González Farran/UNAMID | CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

In this HEART Talk Dr. Peter MacPherson provides a brief overview of the challenges and potential solutions regarding tackling communicable diseases in developing countries.

This presentation was delivered as part of a professional development training session for DFID health advisers in March 2018. Subject experts from the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) presented the latest evidence on the communicable diseases (HIV, malaria, tuberculosis and neglected tropical diseases) that affect the poorest people in DFID partner countries.

Through the K4D programme and in partnership with HEART, a number of reading packs on the topic of communicable diseases have been produced. Related reading packs include:

 

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