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This Is a Global Threat as Big as Climate Change
This morning, I delivered keynote remarks at the release event for the Global Health Risk Framework Commission report on “The Neglected Dimension of Global Security: A Framework to Counter Infectious Disease Crises." The commission, sponsored by the National Academy of Medicine and chaired by Peter Sands, has delivered a very important report on what I think is the issue with the highest ratio of seriousness to policy preparation in the global system. Indeed, for reasons I sketched in my remarks, I believe the threat to global well-being from pandemics over the next century is comparable to the threat from global climate change.
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Vaccine Storage Hubs in Six Tribal Districts
The state government is gearing up to strengthen the immunization supply chain in tribal districts to further reduce vaccine preventable infants' deaths.
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- South Asia
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First Medical Technology Incubator Created in India
India is a country known for its rich culture and amazing food, but for a country of more than 1.2 billion individuals, medical technologies are largely neglected. That is what makes InnAccel such a unique startup. It’s the first and currently only medical technology incubator in India.
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- Health Care, Technology
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Dubai’s Abraaj Group to Acquire a Majority Stake in India’s CARE Hospitals
Dubai-based private equity investor Abraaj Group has agreed to acquire a majority stake in Quality CARE India Ltd, which runs chain of CARE Hospitals in the country, from private equity firm Advent International, according to a statement.
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- Health Care, Investing
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- South Asia
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- impact investing
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Buy a Hot Coffee to Help Healthcare in Africa
In a tiny remote village in Africa a young woman known as Christina is studying to become a midwife.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Gates-Backed Toilet Could Revolutionize Global Sanitation
Five years since the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation first challenged the world to design a sustainable and inexpensive toilet, researchers from Cranfield University may have a viable contender.
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Pivoting to Save Women’s Lives Was the Key to Success for This Medical Technology Startup
Here’s an upsetting statistic: approximately 800 women in developing countries die every day from preventable complications associated with pregnancy and childbirth. When Asa Nordgren and her co-founders realized that physicians were using their digital sonogram service Trice—originally invented as a way for doctors to avoid tedious printouts and CDs in Sweden — to collaborate remotely, they decided to pivot into the global healthcare market to help save women around the world.
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App Making Noise in Africa
Hearing loss is a global epidemic; 1.23 billion people had some form of impairment in 2013. Recognizing that up to 50 percent of hearing losses could be prevented through primary and secondary preventative measures, hearScreen is designed to detect hearing loss in the developing world through use of a low-cost smartphone.
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