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Breastfeeding could add $300 billion into the global economy
The Lancet Breastfeeding Series finds that globally, the costs of lower cognitive ability associated with not breastfeeding amount to more than $300 billion each year, a figure comparable to the entire global pharmaceutical market.
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Closing Ugandas Contraception Gap With Market Development for IUCDs
Despite much progress in increasing access to modern contraceptive methods, in Uganda, the unmet need for voluntary family planning is still a high 34%. Barriers including limited choice, availability and knowledge have led to gaps in access and affordability for the girls and women who want contraceptive options. This week at the International Conference of Family Planning, PSI’s Uganda network member PACE presented multiple presentations and posters offering insight into how it is working to build the market for long-acting reversible contraceptive (LARC) methods using innovative private-sector and total market approaches to meet the need.
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How Wi-Fi Access Can Improve Health Care in Uganda
In an effort to boost Wi-Fi access in the city of Kampala, Uganda, Google began laying down thousands of kilometers of fiber cables in 2013 as a pilot project.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Drones Are The Future Of Women’s Health In Rural Africa
Project Last Mile has for months been successfully flying birth control, condoms and other medical supplies to rural areas of Ghana on 5-foot-wide drones.
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Adapting to Climate Change (Part 1): Health Care
Climate change has led to an increase in vector-borne diseases, primarily impacting the world's poor. The Asian Cities Climate Change Resilience Network supports various private-sector solutions to this problem, and Intellecap is supporting these interventions and mapping pilot project results across various sectors.
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Genetically Modified Mosquitoes Join the Fight to Stop Zika Virus
The rapid spread of the Zika virus has raised interest in a British company that has developed a genetically modified mosquito. Oxitec has produced a genetically engineered line of the Aedes aegypti mosquito, the mosquito that carries dengue fever and chikungunya. Those tropical diseases have become common in Latin America and are now showing up in Florida.
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Merck launches equity-free e-health accelerator in Nairobi
Global science and technology firm Merck has launched its equity-free e-health accelerator programme in Nairobi, Kenya, aimed at fostering the growth of high potential, early-stage e-health startups.
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Viewpoint: 3 Ingredients to Ensure Health and Well-Being for All in Emerging Economies
As part of society, all of us — including companies — have an obligation to contribute to the positive state of the world. There is great opportunity in aligning business objectives with societal challenges and to create business solutions that generate both financial as well as lasting social impact. For example, Sustainable Development Goal 3, achieving healthy lives for all, is a major global challenge that needs to be addressed, and even more so in emerging economies where access to quality, affordable health care is not a given. But this challenge is not insurmountable.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- SDGs