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Pfizer’s Adele Gulfo on the benefits of working with women-owned businesses
As women’s empowerment gains more visibility as a part of the global development agenda, companies are realizing that working with women-owned businesses pays off. Pfizer has discovered that working with women-owned businesses both benefits its business and helps achieve its goals of empowering women, said Adele Gulfo, president of Pfizer Latin America.
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Pharmaceutical firms profit from rising disease burden
A growing trend of ailments plaguing the Nigerian populace, including non-communicable diseases (NCDs) such as hypertension, cancer and diabetes, is offering huge growth prospects for pharmaceutical companies challenged to manufacture drugs to address the situation.
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Combining Profitability and Social Impact: Salud Fácil makes a commitment to health in Mexico’s low-income communities
In Mexico, people seeking health care in the overburdened public sector must often wait six to eight months. Salud Facil offers them low-cost financing so they can seek treatment in the private sector, where there is excess capacity.
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Health Care: Commissioner Sues For Co-operation Amongst Practitioners
Plateau State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Fom Dakwak, called for collaboration among doctors to improve healthcare delivery in Nigeria. Dakwak made the call at the launch of Apollo Global Doctors Network-West Africa, in Lagos
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GSK aims to market world’s first malaria vaccine
British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline will seek marketing approval for the world's first malaria vaccine next year after trial data showed the shot significantly cut cases of the disease in African children. The vaccine known as RTS,S was found, after 18 months of follow-up, to have almost halved the number of malaria cases in young children in the trial, and to have reduced by around a quarter the number of malaria cases in infants.
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Medanta Opens Its First Telemedicine Centre in Chandigarh
Dr. Naresh Trehan, renowned cardiovascular and cardiothoracic surgeon and Chairman cum Managing Director of Medanta -The Medicity inaugurated the region's first telemedicine consultation facility at Prime Diagnostic Centre in Chandigarh today on the eve of the World Heart Day. Dr. Trehan said that it is a part of Medanta's commitment to leverage technology to provide easily accessible and affordable healthcare to the people in the country and help patients make informed choice for the course of treatment after consultation with super-specialists of Medanta.
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Weekly Roundup – 10/4/13: Global health can’t afford a shutdown
Experts tell us that a key to achieving global health is focus. As we’ve seen this week with the U.S. government shutdown, the bigger the organization, the harder it is to focus. But as Kyle Poplin argues in this Roundup post, with about 800 days left to meet the Millennium Development Goal of reducing child and maternal deaths across the planet, global health organizations are working through obstacles far greater than politics.
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The Next Grand Challenge in India: Reinvent the Toilet
The Department of Biotechnology (DBT) under the Ministry of Science and Technology of the Government of India and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in collaboration with India'sBiotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council (BIRAC) launched a call for proposals as part of Grand Challenges India to reinvent the toilet. The Department of Biotechnology and the Gates Foundation will each invest US$1 million to support Indian investigators to drive research, development, and production of the "next generation toilet."
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