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‘Uncomfortable and disgusting’: Uganda’s 1.2m unwanted condoms
The government has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on female prophylactics, but poor take-up is sparking concerns of a rise in HIV infections.
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- Health Care
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- public health
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Revolutionary malaria tests have unexpected downsides
The use of RDTs skyrocketed after the World Health Organization in 2010 recommended that all suspected cases of malaria be confirmed by a test before treatment; roughly 314 million tests were procured in 2014. Together with ACTs, they have transformed malaria treatment in poor countries.
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- Health Care
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- public health
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Microsoft is using AI to track down health problems in India
Redmond is teaming up with the state of Telangana in India where the company will be using its artificial intelligence technology to provide healthcare for children with eye problems.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- South Asia
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Only 3% of world’s healthcare workers are in Africa
Something needs to be done, as Africa has 24% of the world’s burden of diseases but only 3% of the global health workforce.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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This entrepreneur says health care for all starts with keeping local talent
"But if you look at a country like Uganda, my home country, the doctor-patient ratio is one doctor for every 24,000 people. I see myself in these people all the time, because, at one point, I was them."
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Rethinking the Flush Toilet: It’s Time to Move Sanitation Infrastructure Off the Grid
Virginia Gardiner, inventor of the Loowatt toilet system, says sanitation infrastructure has to move off the grid, just as mobile communications did in the 20th century. She points to a growing number of companies, including her own, that are piloting the provision of non-sewered sanitation to households thorough container-based sanitation, a system that presents the most viable alternative for urban areas in need of sanitation solutions.
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- Environment, Health Care, Social Enterprise, WASH
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Malaria test adapted to predict treatment side-effects
While most patients who receive the drug of choice (artemisinin artesunate) against malaria recuperate, a small number (less than 5 per cent) develop a serious and often fatal anaemia called post-artesunate delayed haemolysis (PADH) within a month of treatment.
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- Health Care
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What Common Kitchen Ingredient Can Help Detect Cervical Cancer?
Each year, cervical cancer kills 270,000 women and a third of these deaths occur in just one country: India.
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- Health Care
- Region
- South Asia
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