Through innovative research, education and advocacy, ACRIA is improving lives by influencing public policy, identifying unmet needs, bringing together HIV, aging and other service providers to improve life-saving services, and identifying research gaps in this understudied population.
For example, in North-East Nigeria, the Society for Family Health work with traditional birth attendants and with volunteers from a local Muslim women's association to strengthen health systems as a way to improve life-saving childbirth care practices.
And at a time when most politicians seem adrift, we must bring the sustainability agenda to its Boyling point, not just wowing the world, but working out how to save and improve life for everyone.
Successful diversion programs save tax dollars, improve life circumstances for offenders, satisfy victims, and provide services to the community.
Then there is the growing expectation from a public that regularly hears about apparent medical breakthroughs which are claimed to save, extend or improve life, such as new drugs to treat cancer and other conditions.
Compared with Option A, Option B improves life expectancy and saves money; compared with Option B, lifelong maternal therapy is of comparable value to common HIV-related interventions.
It lies at a difficult moral intersection juxtaposing the need to protect life in all its phases with the prospect of saving and improving life in all its stages.
These techniques of VA ECMO have evolved and improved over the last two decades, allowing expanded application of this life saving support.
54 Prompt transfusion can be life saving.
Regular blood transfusions are potentially life saving.
85 Societies pay for treatment of diseases even when the cost of a life saved or improved is high.
