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Lessons Learned Building Locally-Sourced Wheelchairs
JJD Innovations is empowering local tradesmen like welders to build wheelchairs that are customized to the end-user, while also creating a sustainable supply. The firm had to reiterate the engineering multiple times based on the availability of local materials, and reiterate again when the material was available but the building skills were hard to find.
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- product design, scale
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The Five Principles Behind the World’s Most Efficient Health Systems
One of the greatest conundrums in global health is why so many countries don’t get what they pay for. A relationship between health expenditure and health exists, but is far looser than you might think. Many nations spend a quarter or even a half of what others do for the same or better outcomes.
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Latin America’s Informal Recyclers Push for Recognition and Protection on International Waste Pickers’ Day
You may not know it, but in Latin America and the Caribbean alone, around 4 million people making their living as waste pickers, according to figures from the Regional Initiative for Inclusive Recycling (IRR). Every day, these men and women collect, select, retrieve and sell solid waste from primary sources, which could be private homes, commercial or industrial sites, or even collection centers such as landfills.
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- Latin America
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- waste
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African Nations Join Forces To Negotiate For Cheaper Vaccines
African nations have a signed a declaration to partner in negotiations with multinational drug manufacturers for cheaper vaccines to ensure that immunization is accessible to all children on the continent.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- vaccines
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Designing a Hospital Like a Village Could Solve One of Africa’s Biggest Health Problems
There’s a courtyard with a space for gardening, cooking in a shared kitchen, and laundry done under the shade of a roof that collects rainwater. The Maternity Waiting Village at the Kasungu district hospital in central Malawi emulates the communal spaces of traditional villages. The goal of the design is to attract expectant mothers from remote areas to the facility before giving birth.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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A future where ‘social’ is taken for granted
On average, stocks in India have plunged roughly 10 percent since the beginning of the year, but shares of the hospital chain Narayana Hrudayalaya have been trading at more than 10 percent higher than its public offering price.
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- South Asia
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Practo: Rural India is online healthcare’s big challenge
India's online health care sector is growing at a remarkable pace but the disparity between how rural and urban India benefit from it are stark.
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- South Asia
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Why the world is stockpiling unapproved vaccine
The non-profit organization Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, bought 300,000 doses of the most promising Ebola vaccine from Merck in January. But the shot hasn't been approved by any country yet.
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- Health Care
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- vaccines