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MRC Injects R10M Into Fight Against Life Threatening Health Conditions
CAPE TOWN- The Medical Research Council (MRC) has put up R10 million to boost the development of medical technology and programmes focused on the reduction of life-threatening health conditions in Sub-Saharan Africa. Specific emphasis will be placed maternal and child health care.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Zika Vaccine Could Be Delayed, Unaffordable After US Army Grants Exclusive Rights to Pharma Company
The U.S. Army’s plan to grant exclusive rights to a promising Zika vaccine to a major pharmaceutical company has raised questions about whether that threatens its future affordability and availability to people in developing countries.
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- Health Care
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- vaccines
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Social Business Roundup: Scrutinizing a $30M Cookstove Study, the Limits of Silicon Valley and TV from the Sun
A $30 million study looking into using liquified petroleum gas in clean cookstoves has some 'stovers' heated up, why apps won't stop pandemics and why the time may be right for solar TV. It's all in our weekly roundup of social business news.
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- Energy, Environment, Health Care, Impact Assessment, Technology
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- climate health, solar
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World’s Foremost Institute on Death and Disease Metrics Gets Massive Cash Boost
The world’s premier centre for health metrics — the science of measuring and analysing global health problems, and how they relate to healthcare and biomedical research funding — will receive a US$279-million cash injection from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
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- Health Care
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- research
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Australian project to improve water delivery in urban slums gets $27m funding
Prof Rebekah Brown, the director of the Sustainable Development Institute at Melbourne’s Monash University, has been awarded a $14m research grant by the Wellcome Trust’s Our Planet Our Health awards in the UK. A further $13m from the Asian Development Bank would cover infrastructure and construction costs.
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- Environment, Health Care
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- public health, research
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Doctors Without Borders Objects to Sanofi Receiving an Exclusive License for a Zika Vaccine
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) on Monday objected to the US government’s granting of an exclusive patent license to Sanofi Pasteur for a developing Zika vaccine, though Sanofi fired back on Tuesday explaining the risks of developing such a vaccine.
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- Health Care
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Only 1% of R&D Funds Spent for HIV, Tuberculosis and Malaria: WHO
Investments in health research and development (R&D) are poorly aligned with global public health needs, the World Health Organisation said, highlighting that merely 1% of the total funding on health R&D was allocated towards neglected diseases like HIV , tuberculosis and malaria which account for more than 12.5% of the global disease burden.
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- Health Care
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Mark Zuckerberg’s Philanthropy Organization Acquired a Startup to Help Cure the World’s Diseases
Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan's philanthropic organization has bought Meta, a search engine that uses artificial intelligence to find scientific research papers.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- philanthropy
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