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Drones From Bay Area Startup to Deliver Vaccines in Africa
A Bay Area robotics startup plans to use drones to deliver vaccines and blood for transfusions to hard-to-reach areas of Rwanda — with some help from UPS.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Gates Foundation Backs Takeda Polio Vaccine With $38 Million Grant
Japan's Takeda Pharmaceuticals is to get $38 million from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to develop a crucial, low-cost polio vaccine for use in developing countries.
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- Health Care
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- vaccines
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Tobacco Firms Pushed AIDS Agenda to Protect Profits
Tobacco firms used the fight against HIV/AIDS as a smokescreen to hinder tobacco control efforts in developing countries, researchers have revealed.
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- Health Care
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How an Obscure Disease Became a Global Health Emergency
In early February 2015, doctors in the impoverished northeastern part of Brazil noticed a surge in the number of people complaining about a mild illness, with and without fever, characterized by rash, fatigue, joint pains, and red eyes. The illness was brief and recovery was spontaneous. A mild form of dengue, a mosquito-borne disease hyperendemic throughout the country, was initially suspected, but tests were negative in the vast majority of samples. Chikungunya, another mosquito-borne disease first detected in Africa in 1952, had hopped to Brazil in September 2014 and was likewise suspected. Again, tests results were negative.
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- Health Care
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- Latin America
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The US Spent $1.4 Billion in Africa Telling People Not to Have Sex and It Didn’t Work
The United States has spent $1.4 billion over the last decade on promoting abstinence in Africa as a way to slow the spread of HIV. It hasn’t helped, according to a study published this week in Health Affairs, and may be causing more harm than good.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Panel rejects Sanofi’s waiver plea for dengue vaccine
French drug and vaccines giant Sanofi suffered a setback in introducing its much-awaited dengue vaccine Dengvaxia in India after a top health ministry committee rejected its request to waive additional clinical studies.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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Rising Medicine Costs Burden Global Health Systems
France is leading calls for the G7 to act against the inflation of medicine prices. Treatment costs are rising in rich countries, but can be even higher in the developing world. EurActiv France reports.
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- Health Care
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- Europe & Eurasia
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Finding a Sanitation Destiny: ‘I Am Supposed to Design Toilets’
Jasmine Burton of Wish for WASH: "Although we are still very much researching and iterating our design, (the) SafiChoo (toilet) is innovative because it seeks to incorporate human-centered design and community-driven solutions to best improve the user experience in all parts of the market (from manufacturing to shipping to distributing to customers to end users)."
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- Health Care, WASH
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- sanitation