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Swift Emergency Care – Nigeria’s First Online Emergency Response System
Anigbo and his team developed the Swift Emergency Care, an online emergency response care system, the “Uber” for health emergencies in Nigeria. Nigeria’s healthcare system is riddled with numerous challenges and limitations, from medical negligence to a lack of infrastructure and personnel.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Price fixation of essential drugs hits profitability: Novartis
The government's push for prescribing the drugs by generic names could pose further challenges, Novartis India said in the latest annual report for 2016-17.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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How to make global universal healthcare a reality
"All healthcare models have their challenges in terms of systems capacity, fiscal space and good governance."
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- Health Care
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- public health
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Genomic Vaccines Fight Disease in Ways Not Possible Before
Genomic vaccines promise to offer many advantages, including fast manufacture when a virus, such as Zika or Ebola, suddenly becomes more virulent or widespread.
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Unitus fund’s latest StartHealth winners spotlight rise of medical tech innovation in India
Unitus Seed Fund, one of India's best-known impact venture funds that backs early-stage startups innovating for the masses, has named two winners of its StartHealth startup contest, which show medical tech innovation is taking off in India.
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- Health Care, Technology
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The Dirty Secret of Social Enterprise: Scale is Overrated
Author Jonathan C. Lewis writes that for some staggering societal problems – like deaths from child poverty and modern-day slavery – scaling solutions is an urgent necessity. However, for social entrepreneurs, he says the important thing is not organizational size, geographic coverage or budget, but progress toward social justice. He urges leaders to focus less on size and more on striving to maintain balance.
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- Health Care, Impact Assessment, Social Enterprise
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Dissolvable patch offers radical pain-free alternative to flu injection, study finds
“I think this product would greatly simplify access to vaccines and perhaps improve coverage as well,” said Nadine Rouphael, a co-author of the research and associate professor of medicine at Emory University School of Medicine.
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The World Bank’s “pandemic bonds” are designed so investors pay in the event of an outbreak
The money raised comprises the bulk of a $500 million Pandemic Emergency Financial Facility that will provide funds for poor countries in case of outbreaks of infectious diseases over the next five years. The bonds are designed to transfer the risk of a health crisis in low-income countries to the global financial markets. World Bank president Jim Yong Kim said this will help move away from “the cycle of panic and neglect” that has characterized recent pandemics.
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- Health Care
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- public health
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