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Beyond ‘Pilotitis’: Three Critical Success Factors for National Digital Health Strategies
The ecosystem of digital health solutions and programs remains disjointed and many countries are moving toward the complex task of implementing national strategies to coordinate this fragmentation. A new report highlights eight countries that are effectively developing and implementing national digital health strategies, and finds three common success factors.
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- Health Care, Technology
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Press release: GHIT Fund Secures Commitments of Over US$200 Million for Infectious Diseases of the Developing World
This announcement demonstrates the continued leadership and commitment of the Government of Japan, leading life sciences companies, international foundations and other partners to combat neglected diseases; with this replenishment, which marks a doubling of previous commitments, GHIT will accelerate and expand its development of new tools while ensuring they are accessible and delivered to the world’s most vulnerable
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- Health Care
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Ban on foreign funds for non-profit may hurt India health programs
Affected programs included those on eliminating black fever, HIV prevention, tobacco control and universal health coverage, PHFI wrote in the letter, which was reviewed by Reuters.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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- public health
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Amazon poised to disrupt pharmaceuticals
Amazon’s disruption in the retail and logistics space is unprecedented and in need of no introduction. However, in its typical style, while everyone has been focusing on what we perceive to be its core business, it has quietly been thinking of swallowing a completely different industry – in this case, pharmaceuticals.
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- Health Care
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Cashless Hospitalization, Premiums of $3.90 a Year … and the Program Pays for Itself
Beset with high levels of preventable illness and avoidable hospital admissions, India needs a risk coverage instrument that shields poor and low-income households. Grameen Koota thinks it's found one; the microfinance organization's insurance plan offers a variety of medical services at an annual premium of $3.90, capturing the pricing benefit of risk-pooling between different households.
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- Health Care
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Unitus Seed Fund hires Milind Shah as healthcare venture partner
Early-stage impact-focused venture fund Unitus Seed Fund has roped in Milind Shah, the India managing director of global healthcare company Medtronic as its healthcare venture partner.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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Large market share for non-quality-assured malaria medicines in Africa
A new study of malaria medicine quality in 8 sub-Saharan African countries has found a large and potentially growing market for non-quality-assured (QA) malaria treatments—medicines not pre-approved by global health organizations - as much as 20% of the private-sector market in Kenya, and 42% in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Tedros’ fundraising strategy for WHO, global health
Tedros has repeatedly mentioned the need to expand the WHO’s donor base, and he reiterated this during his first press conference as the newly elected director-general on Wednesday at Palais des Nations in Geneva, where the current 70th World Health Assembly is held. WHO’s funding unit requires upsizing in terms of size and skills of human resources, he said. WHO should look into what it can learn from other United Nations agencies, such as UNICEF, on the issue of fundraising.
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- Health Care
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