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Curing Pilot-itis for mHealth
How do you take mobile health projects beyond the pilot stage in low- and middle-income countries? Build for scale and sustainability from the start. That's the goal of a bot for Messenger built for the South African National Department of Health’s MomConnect maternal health platform, and launched this week at the International AIDS Conference.
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Monthly Vaginal Ring May Help Protect Against HIV
When used regularly, a medicated monthly vaginal ring may be an effective way for women in sub-Saharan Africa to protect themselves from HIV infection, according to new research.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Aspen Expands in China as African Drugmaker Targets Growth
Aspen Pharmacare Holdings Ltd. plans to increase its Chinese presence as Africa’s biggest maker of generic drugs ramps up distribution of its low-cost pharmaceuticals in the world’s most-populous country.
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- Asia Pacific
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Research charities help marry two major South African HIV/tuberculosis institutes
As the International AIDS Conference kicked off in Durban, South Africa, today, two of the nation’s most prominent biomedical research institutions announced that they will marry and combine resources to attack the raging coepidemic of tuberculosis (TB) and HIV in the region.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Scientists have put a $2 Zika test into a portable, can-sized container
Over 400,000 people are suspected to have contracted Zika in North and South America as of the end of June, but only 56,000 infections have been confirmed, mainly because it’s too expensive and cumbersome to administer lab tests. A team of researchers at the University of Pennsylvania has developed a new saliva test that can deliver a Zika diagnosis in under an hour far from labs or medical facilities.
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Viewpoint: If It Ain’t Broke, Don’t Fix It
In October of 2015, Universities Allied for Essential Medicines (UAEM) released an open letter with the title Make Medicines for People Not for Profit. The letter – now signed by a wide range of academics and researchers, including Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz – issues a call for a “global research and development (R&D) agreement to ensure access to affordable vaccines, medicines and life-saving technologies for all.”
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More than half of the doctors in India not medically qualified: WHO
More than half of the doctors in India are not medically qualified, a report titled "HealthWorkforce in India" by the World Health Organisation (WHO) has claimed. According to the report, in rural India, only 18.8 percent of the allopathic doctors qualified. The report is based on the data taken from each district in the country based on Census 2001.
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- South Asia
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All That Data: What Health Researchers Can Do With Pokemon GO
Nearly one in five Australians use an activity tracking device daily or nearly daily. Of the people who use activity trackers, three-quarters are prepared to share that data, on the proviso that it is anonymously used for health and medical research.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- South Asia
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