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The World Is Looking For Affordable Drugs – and India Needs to Keep Delivering
India exports half of its total production of pharmaceuticals. Exports to the US and other rigorously-regulated western markets account for over 50% of India’s global exports. This has given a stamp of quality to Indian pharmaceuticals, adding to the confidence in Indian medicines in Latin American and the rest of the developing world.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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How Dubai Is Turning Into A Smart City ‘Test Bed’ For Global Digital Health Entrepreneurs
With considerable wealth, the country -- and Dubai in particular -- has technologically leapfrogged to implement the most modern healthcare technology available. As the UAE establishes its development agenda and enables a new era for healthcare, it has an opportunity to create a new paradigm to structure the way healthcare is conceived founded on synergies between technology and data, and a commitment to create better patient solutions.
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- Health Care
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- North Africa & Near East
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Solar power: A shot in the arm for India’s health centers
Nearly 35 million people in rural India relied on un-electrified primary health centers as of 2015, according to government data. One in every two primary health centers has no electricity or suffers from power outages, putting baby deliveries, paediatric emergencies and cold storage of vaccines at risk, among other vital health services. Renewable energy sources like solar power provide an opportunity to work around the challenges that accompany a lack of electricity.
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- Energy, Health Care
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- South Asia
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- renewable energy, vaccines
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Sisu Global Health wins $25,000 at GE-backed competition
CEO Carolyn Yarina states that funding received from competition will provide crucial resources for commercialization of new blood recycling device.
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- Health Care, Technology
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Neglected tropical diseases: Funding the next stage of the fight
Delegates (at the recent NTDs Summit in Geneva, Switzerland) highlighted that while NTDs are considered one of the best buys in public health, they continue to be underfunded, and remain largely dependent on donors.
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WHO to help bring cheap biosimilar cancer drugs to poor
The World Health Organization (WHO) is to launch a pilot project this year to assess cheap copies of expensive biotech cancer drugs in a bid to make such medicines more widely available in poorer countries.
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The app making healthcare accessible in South Africa
AitaHealth trains community health workers who offer counseling and home treatment, focusing on preventive care.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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African governments set to stare down a healthy PATH
While several African countries have invested in a growing pipeline of high-impact, cost-effective innovations for healthcare, the innovations were largely reliant on foreign investments, according to Craig Friderichs, a country director of international health NGO PATH.
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- Health Care
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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