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China’s Vaccine Diplomacy Revamps the Health Silk Road

WEBThe Health Silk Road has also been explicitly connected with the Digital Silk Road (DSR), another lesser-known BRI program aimed at enhancing digital connectivity which has also been revitalized this year (Belt and Road News, May 20). Human rights watchers fear that as China touts its successful handling of the pandemic via the vehicle …

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Sterilizations, IUDs, and Coercive Birth Prevention: The …

WEBIn 2019 and 2020, the Xinjiang’s Health Commission budgeted $37 million (260 million RMB) for free “birth control surgeries” ( …

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YELTSIN’S HEALTH PROBLEMS MAY BE ROOTED IN DEPRESSION

WEBAugust 4, 1995 07:00 AM Age: 29 years. Yeltsin’s health problems may be rooted in depression. by Martin Ebon. Boris Yeltsin’s recent heart attack, his heavy drinking on occasionand his periodic disappearances from public view may all havetheir roots in a common and potentially more serious illness. As Yeltsin acknowledges in both volumes …

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China’s Declining Birth Rate and Changes in CCP Population Policies

WEB(The Health Commission has stated that the data discrepancy for 2018 was due to a change in the accounting for migrant populations.) In January 2020 the PRC National Bureau of Statistics reported an official 2019 total birth number of 14.65 million (National Bureau of Statistics of China, January 17). These numbers, if true, indicate a

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THE "PEOPLE'S WAR" AGAINST DRUGS AND HIV/AIDS

WEBThe ministry of health is actively embracing the concept of methadone clinics, and has ambitious plans to expand the program, due partly to expanding domestic budgets and large grants from the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and other international donor organizations. With 12 government methadone clinics currently …

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CHINA’S SOFT POWER IN AFRICA: FROM THE “BEIJING …

WEBThe health needs of many Chinese are also not being met and government doctors are increasingly called upon to deal with public health issues at home. Additionally, given that the Chinese medical system is increasingly privatized, more doctors are less inclined to accept a two-year posting in Africa, particularly because they currently

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Assessing Mental Health Challenges in the People’s

WEBEditor’s note: This is the first part of a two-part article that addresses the efforts of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) to deal more effectively with the challenges of mental health, which can have serious impacts on the morale and readiness of individual service members—and therefore, on the combat readiness of the PLA as a whole. Part …

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Lukashenka's Illness and the Uproar Over It

WEBOver the past decade, only four times has his health been mentioned by official sources. That includes his two knee surgeries (disclosed by him in October 2013) and two instances of COVID-19 …

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Reforming China's Healthcare System: Beijing's Strategy for

WEBThe limited health resources are also used inefficiently, primarily because the Ministry of Health allocates a significant portion of the resources to urban services and to tertiary hospitals, large hospitals based primarily in urban regions. What little funding is left is insufficient to ensure the provision of basic primary healthcare in

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Violence and Viruses: How a Poorly Armed Insurgency in the

WEBThe World Health Organization (WHO) has warned the virus could spread to Uganda and/or Rwanda at any time. In a worrying trend, the organization notes the 19 health workers who caught the disease by October 11 had all been infected outside health facilities, pointing to Ebola’s spread in the larger community (Al-Jazeera, October 11).

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The State Response to a Mystery Viral Outbreak in Central China

WEBIn a subsequent announcement on January 5, the Wuhan Municipal Health Commission indicated that the first cases of infection were identified on December 12 (Wuhan Health Commission, January 5). Assuming this to be correct, nearly three weeks passed between the first confirmed case of infection and the first official notice made to …

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Why Are Ossetians and Abkhazians Coming to Georgia for Medical

WEBState Minister Zakareishvili is convinced that Ossetians visit Tbilisi to receive medical treatment because Georgia has a “high-quality and non-corrupt healthcare system.”. According to Zakareishvili, “in order to receive the same level of medical assistance, residents of Tskhinvali would have to go to Moscow or St. Petersburg, but …

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Behind the Rumors of Putin’s Illness: Distraction or

WEBThis past month saw a new surge in “leaks” and speculation about the state of President Vladimir Putin’s health along with suggestions in the press that he might, therefore, be planning to resign his post early. Rumors of Putin’s failing constitution became repeated so frequently that they compelled presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov …

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New Rumors on Lukashenka’s Ill Health and What Really Matters

WEB“The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated,” Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka may soon be repeating these words that are commonly attributed to Mark Twain. Less than two weeks after unsubstantiated rumors about Lukashenka’s health condition subsided (see EDM, May 24), a new rumor captured public attention …

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China’s Anti-Corruption Efforts Gain Momentum in Finance and …

WEBEditor’s note: Tables at the end of the PDF version of this article detail a selection of the officials who have been investigated as part of probes into the health and financial sectors this year. On September 27, Chinese President Xi Jinping presided over a meeting of the Politburo, where he announced the end of the current round of finance …

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Assessing Mental Health Challenges in the People’s Liberation …

WEBEditor’s note: This is the second part of a two-part article that addresses the efforts of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) to deal more effectively with the challenges of mental health, which can have serious impacts on the morale and readiness of individual service members—and therefore, on the combat readiness of the PLA as a whole. Part …

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Lukashenka's health June 2023

WEBYears before Shamima Begum and Hoda Muthana made international news for their attempts to leave the Islamic State, renowned terrorism analyst Halla Diyab began writing articles for The Jamestown Foundation documenting numerous cases of Western women being radicalized in their home countries and becoming aggressive, motivated …

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The Evolution of the PLA’s Enlisted Force: Training (Part Two)

WEBMental health and wellness are now a significant part of new soldier training. Since September 2016, newly enlisted personnel were given mental health screenings as part of an experimental program by the Air Force Military Medical University Aviation Medical Research Institute. New soldiers also received a recitation of WeChat-delivered …

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ONE YEAR AFTER HEART SURGERY, YELTSIN GETS CLEAN BILL OF …

WEBNovember 5, 1997 08:00 AM Age: 26 years. Renat Akchurin, the surgeon who carried out a coronary by-pass heart operation on Russian President Boris Yeltsin one year ago today, told journalists in Moscow yesterday that an electrocardiogram check, carried out on the president that day, showed that Yeltsin is in good physical condition and that his

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Red Genes: Assessing WuXi AppTec's Ties to the Party-Army-State …

WEBWuXi AppTec’s first significant involvement in sensitive genomics and genetic data analysis was through its former subsidiary WuXi NextCode (药明明码), created in 2015 through the acquisition of NextCode Health, a company in Iceland. In 2018, WuXi NextCode acquired the controversial Genomics Medicine Ireland (GMI).

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Is Chechen Leader Kadyrov Preparing to Pass Governorship to Son

WEBChechen strongman Ramzan Kadyrov’s health has rapidly deteriorated according to multiple media reports. Kadyrov, who has experienced kidney failure due to alleged poisoning, does not trust Russian doctors. Thus, a doctor from Abu Dhabi was invited to treat him. Due to these health issues, the Chechen ruler missed Russian …

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Marcos Presidency Reinvigorates Communist Insurgency in the

WEBIt should be noted that the mention of high-profile NPA figures having ill health or being unarmed non-combatants is commonly made following such targeted AFP operations, however. Similar claims, for example, were made about the killing of Jorge “Ka Oris” Madlos (Militant Leadership Monitor, February 2022; pna.gov.ph, October 31, 2022).

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