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Health Organisations Call for Gender Equality This Women’s Day
They said women across the world have unique health needs that are often not addressed. In South-East Asia Region, for instance, about 61,000 women died in 2015 while giving birth, said the World Health Organisation (WHO).
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Rise in Use of Contraception Offers Hope for Containing Global Population
The number of women using contraceptives in developing countries has soared to record levels in recent years, such that projections for global population growth could be cut by as much as 1 billion over the next 15 years.
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Turning Global Targets into Action
For the first time, the global health community is being called to act against the rise of NCDs, the root cause of 38 million of the 56 million deaths in 2012. What may come as a shock, given that NCDs are generally thought of as diseases of affluence, is that Africa as a whole is poised to bear the bulk of the NCD burden in the coming years.
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Philips to Ship Healthcare Products From India
After establishing Pune as the global headquarters for its mobile surgery division, Dutch technology company Royal Philips is exporting the products it developed here to the Western markets.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- South Asia
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Viewpoint: How the “Free Market” in Vaccines Is Neither Free nor Fair
Take a look at the World Health Assembly’s action plan on tackling the barriers to global vaccination, and time and time again, the almighty dollar comes up.
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South African State-Owned Drug Firm Seeks Anti-Retroviral Supplies
South Africa wants anti-retroviral drug suppliers to allocate some of their products to a new state-owned pharmaceutical firm, Ketlaphela, a government official said on Friday, part of plans to tackle the country's AIDS problem.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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This Tiny Bot Glows to Diagnose Tuberculosis
Scientists have engineered nanoparticles to do all sorts of amazing things, from killing diseased cells in the body to creating a powerful water-resistant coating. Now a team led by researchers at Brock University in Canada has created a nanobot that can help diagnose disease more quickly and accurately than before. The scientists recently published a study outlining the technology in the journal ACS Nano.
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Google gives $1M grant, engineers to fight Zika virus
Google is taking steps to combat the spread of Zika in Brazil and throughout Latin America. The Internet giant's philanthropic arm, Google.org, is giving a $1 million grant to UNICEF.
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