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Health tourism being made competitive in India
The Centre is taking all steps to make the Indian health tourism industry globally competitive
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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Eight years after the last outbreak in 2005, polio is once again ravaging the Horn of Africa
Since May health authorities have reported 191 cases: 174 in Somalia, 14 in north-eastern Kenya and three in Ethiopia.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- public health
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The risk with the Global Fund’s new TB strategy
Groups advocating for TB elimination are hailing a new Global Fund proposed strategy that could raise coverage of the disease’s treatment, but an expert warns it entails some risks.
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- Health Care
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Can You Hear Me Yet?: mHealth breakthroughs not increasing as fast as the possibilities
How could mobile phones be even more important in the future, if most of the world already has one? Because one day soon they’ll be put to their highest use: saving millions of lives.
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- Health Care, Technology, Telecommunications
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Time for New Revolutions in Global Health Care
The introductions of anesthesia, sterilization and academy-trained surgeons were the three revolutions of modern surgery, but this history reflects progress that has prioritized a small portion of the world's population.
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- Health Care
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- public health
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Blue chip companies join forces with UN to provide better healthcare
The campaign aims to train, equip and deploy one million community health workers by the end of 2015.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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How a restaurant chain pioneered a social impact bond to fight malaria
Nando’s, the restaurant chain popular for its peri-peri chicken, recently announced a partnership creating the Mozambique Malaria Performance Bond, a development impact bond to fund malaria reduction efforts in Mozambique.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Mexico nears junk food tax, sets anti-obesity plan
Mexico's congress approved a new tax on junk food Thursday as the government announced a campaign to fight obesity in a country with one of the world's highest rates of overweight people.
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- Health Care
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- Latin America
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- nutrition, public health