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The resulting report, produced in collaboration with A World At School, identifies the components of the safe schools of the future: adequate public-health training for teachers, twice-daily body-temperature checks for children, education programs on health and Ebola transmission, and hearty, nutrient-rich meals to build up children’s resistance.
At the same time, the new model that emerges will still have to account for major forces that sustained the old model, especially the forces of globalization and technological innovation that voter resistance will not stop.
History suggests that if we were to make these drugs available to poor countries for ring prophylaxis, they would often be administered improperly – such as in sub-optimal doses – in a way that would promote viral resistance and only intensify a pandemic.
India’s farmers, for example, are up in arms, because the land-acquisition law passed by the previous government has been gutted through a series of amendments imposed by fiat (which are now, however, running into legislative resistance).
But the Chinese government’s resistance was both understandable and inevitable.
Little wonder, then, that Ed Miliband, Britain’s Secretary for Energy and Climate Change, found “impossible resistance” from China to a global carbon mitigation deal.
Rather than hoping that we can overcome their “impossible resistance” with political maneuvering, leaders of developed countries need to shift their focus to a strategy that is both feasible and effective.
On the few occasions that such resistance was seemingly overcome, the outcome was gradual and timid change.
After decades of authoritarian rule, citizens, frustrated with discredited institutions and paralyzed political parties, have begun to employ social media to organize civil resistance.
That would be devastating, but the silver lining is that, eventually, a resistance would rise up and destroy the system.
I am sure that there must be severe resistance to this idea in some circles in Germany.
But TB treatment has been shadowed by the specter of drug resistance since the dawn of the antibiotic era.
However, the problem of drug resistance has persisted, and efforts to contain it globally have not been sufficient.
Resistance to anti-TB drugs arises from selection of naturally occurring mutants with innate resistance to drugs.
Once this resistance develops, treatment is compromised, further resistance can evolve, and resistant organisms can be transmitted to other people, leading to primary drug resistance that may fail to respond to standard therapy.
An unfortunate consequence of treating MDR-TB with second-line drugs, however, is the inevitable emergence of further drug resistance.
Moreover, the capacity for prompt, accurate laboratory-based diagnosis of TB and drug resistance must be strengthened.
The Global Project on Anti-Tuberculosis Drug Resistance Surveillance has collected information on prevalence, patterns, and trends of drug resistance since 1994, focusing on resistance to first-line drugs and contributing much to our understanding of MDR-TB.
This includes promoting new drugs lines that can enhance the potency of first-line regimens, thereby shortening treatment duration and preventing the emergence of resistance in the first place.
Indeed, deficiencies in the global monetary system contributed to several economic failings in recent years: excess global liquidity; over-accumulation of dollar-denominated reserve assets; uneven policy responses to current-account surpluses and deficits; resistance to necessary exchange-rate adjustments in the emerging world; and coexistence of inflation and deflation at a global level.
Democracy, too, was a product of resistance to aristocratic rule.
Step by step, despite strong resistance, we have changed the rules that govern financial institutions, the institutions that oversee banking operations, and the mechanisms to coordinate resolution of failed banks.
Back to Disease-Fighting BasicsLONDON – Combating antimicrobial resistance will require groundbreaking technological solutions.
Several of Snow’s methods are directly applicable to the modern problem of antimicrobial resistance.
This has not only had dire implications for urban dwellers forced to live in unsanitary conditions; it has also contributed to rising drug resistance.
Even if it is not explicitly prohibited, joining the workforce is often very difficult for women, not least because of widespread resistance among the men who dominate these societies.
This exchange reveals quite the opposite – that both parties are committed to their core values of resistance and confrontation.
It was about standing up to the Zionist enemy, the high-tech crusader whose military superiority can be defeated only by stubborn resistance.
But it is not a smooth road, because it threatens resistance by the capital-exporting countries’ taxpayers and trade unions against the outflow of capital.
In Germany, in particular, enormous resistance will build up if the country – via the introduction of Eurobonds – is driven back into the crisis that it underwent as a result of the interest-rate convergence that followed the introduction of the euro.
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