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Africa’s Richest Man To Build 1,000-Bed Hospital
Nigerian billionaire and Africa’s richest man Aliko Dangote plans to construct a 1,000-bed hospital in Kano, which when completed will be the largest health facility in the northern state, Nigeria’s Channels Television has reported.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Malaria — the first disease beaten by mobile?
The fight against malaria, one of the world’s most killer diseases, urgently needs an injection of mobile technology. “Malaria threatens half the globe. By some accounts it has killed more people than any other cause in human history,” Martin Edlund, CEO of Malaria No More, told Devex at the Social Good Summit in New York. The organization — founded by U.N. special envoy for the disease Ray Chambers — has just launched its new “Power of One” campaign, which links mobile phones around the world with a tracking program for malaria testing and treatment supplies, so individuals can track the impact of their charitable donations.
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New service uses mobile phones to reduce maternal mortality
For many rural expectant and new mothers, health care providers may be far away, but new technology is bringing them close through the mobile phone, now almost ubiquitous even in the poorest corners of the world.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Process, Not Product: How lessons from India can transform health care across borders
Partnership aims to increase access to health care worldwide by identifying and spreading the word about promising innovations. Next up, a study tour of four forward-thinking firms in India.
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GAVI’s David Ferreira: Private sector to boost vaccine supply-chain effectiveness
At this year’s Clinton Global Initiative, the GAVI Alliance announced a pair of new intiatives that aim to leverage private sector funds and expertise to improve delivery of vaccines worldwide.
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Comprehensive and Successful Healthcare: Innovations from Brazil
For over twenty years Saúde Criança -- "Child Health" in English -- has helped thousands of poor families, mostly female-headed households, cope with chronic health problems that affect their children. It does so through fostering partnerships with public hospitals and implementing a co-responsibility scheme with families whose children suffer major health issues such as cancer, brain tumors, or chronic respiratory problems.
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Sucre Blue sets up affordable, community health care in India
Erin Little’s inspiration to establish India’s Sucre Blue stemmed from the problems she encountered with a Type 1 diabetes diagnosis during her childhood. “It was getting to a point where it was really, really hard to take care of myself,” Little told MSNBC about her health insurance costs.
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- South Asia
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NexThought Monday – Stories Without Borders: And one way to start telling them
In 2006, blogging was radical. But Doctors Without Borders tried it anyway, and field blogs help put a human face on the organization while allowing readers a glimpse into a world that was otherwise unknown to them.
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