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This Lancet Commission report focuses on the growing burden of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and underscores new approaches toward eliminating the disease worldwide. The report urges an approach toward COPD that considers the heterogeneity of the disease and the widespread factors contributing to the rising global burden of respiratory illness, such as exposure to pollutants, the aging of the global population, and the unchecked sale of tobacco products. The report proposes classifying COPD into…

This brief case is a supplement to the original case on Thailand’s 100% Condom Program, HIV in Thailand: The 100% Condom Program. It recounts the eventual nationwide adoption of that program and its impact on HIV in Thailand. Thailand’s 100% Condom Program, which was implemented nationwide in 1991, is widely credited with averting a generalized HIV epidemic in that nation. This case describes the development of a pilot program in one province, and the program’s…

This case examines the development of a low-cost, one-time treatment for hydrocephalus using endoscopic techniques. Dr. Benjamin Warf, medical director and chief of surgery at CURE Children's Hospital in eastern Uganda, had noticed a high incidence of hydrocephalus among his patients. Frustrated by the lack of options for these patients and by the limitations of shunts in a low-resource setting, he pioneered a combination of endoscopic third ventriculostomy (ETV) and choroid plexus cauterization (CPC) to…