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OPINION: A CDC for Africa
The idea for Africa's own Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) was devised in 2013 and formalized after the worst Ebola outbreak in history the following year. The Africa CDC, which was officially launched in January of this year, is a growing partnership that aims to build countries' capacity to help create a world that is safe and secure from infectious disease threats.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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The Neighborhood Toilet Champion
“The waste water was always coming out of my compound and into the street!” exclaims Monsieur Theodore Danho, a landlord in the crowded capital city of Abidjan, Cote D’Ivoire.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Philanthropy King: Bill Gates Gives Away $4.6 Billion, Unveils New Campaign To Combat Malaria
Gates gave away $4.6 billion in Microsoft shares in June to his personal charity, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, according to a filing published Monday by the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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- Health Care
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Google buys Seattle health monitoring startup Senosis, bolstering digital health push
Patel, who founded Senosis Health with four other clinicians, researchers and tech transfer experts from the University of Washington, won a MacArthur genius grant in 2011 and his past innovations have ranged from energy meters to air quality sensors.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- North America
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OPINION: Historic health plan led by Africans for Africans
The continent’s leading health figures debated and discussed a continent-wide campaign to tackle key bottlenecks to health solutions in Africa. At the heart of this was the clarion call to African governments to prioritize health care in their countries, to do more to retain local health professionals and curb the exodus of their skills to foreign markets, and for more investment in supporting African health research to ensure locally-relevant- and- led health solutions.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- Africa, Ghana, global health, healthcare, public health
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Turning Puffs Into Pesos
The Philippine’s Secretary of Health, Dr. Paulyn Rossell-Ubial, shares with Asian Scientist Magazine how her country has turned a tax on smoking into a health intervention.
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- Asia Pacific
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South Africa: Could Better Health for Your Baby Come in a Cardboard Box?
Almost 40% of pregnant women in South Africa's public health sector go for their first check-up only after their 20th week of pregnancy, figures from the Health Systems Trust's 2015/2016 District Health Barometer show.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Microsoft has found an inexpensive way to save lives in India
Microsoft Research India works on projects in areas of machine learning, natural language processing and it explores creating technology for emerging markets. One of the projects, 99DOTS, has looked at low-cost ways to ensure tuberculosis patients regularly take their medication
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- Health Care, Technology
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- South Asia
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