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Social Franchising Helps a Midwife Provide Quality Care
If juggling multiple tasks were an Olympic sport, Jane Mpanga would have a gold medal. At the Good Samaritan Clinic in Kampala, Uganda, which she owns and runs, Jane checks in on patients, talks with her community outreach workers, reviews lab reports and calls women who have missed appointments to see if they need a ride.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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How a Textile Company Became a Development Powerhouse
As the international community increasingly calls on business to help finance and implement the Sustainable Development Goals, the private sector has questions of its own — namely ‘What exactly is the market opportunity?’
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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First Time, Plan to Map Every Doctor, Health Facility in the Country
For the first time, the government will map health facilities, doctors and specialists available in all districts of the country. The health geo-mapping project has already been completed in four districts chosen as a pilot. When the entire country is covered, the project will cost around Rs 100 crore as per initial estimates drawn up by the Ministry of Health.
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- South Asia
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Q&A: Toilets Confront Climate Change
Two-and-a-half billion people worldwide have no access to safe, durable sanitation systems. Brian Arbogast, director of the water, sanitation and hygiene programme at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, tellsSciDev.Net how innovative toilet technologies and business models could help fix this — and help communities cope with the devastation of climate change.
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- Environment, Health Care
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- climate change
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University Students Energise Global Campaign for Medical R&D Agreement
The force of hundreds of students worldwide has gathered behind an international effort urging governments to promote research and development in a way that does not result in high-priced medicines. The initiative led by Universities Allied for Essential Medicines (UAEM) seeks to address the longstanding gap in affordable medicines and puts the focus on the World Health Organization, whose members are currently working on this issue.
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- Education, Health Care
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Evolko Systems Targets Rural India With New Health Solutions
Sickness is a great equalizer -- it hits the poor and the rich uniformly. While most startups in the healthcare sector have been on a frenzy to tap the urban markets, a San Francisco-based firm has devised a method to successfully cater to the bottom of the pyramid at scale.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- South Asia
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Global Health Forecast For 2016: Which Diseases Will Rise … Or Fall?
No one predicted the Ebola epidemic before it burst forth in 2014 and continued to claim lives throughout 2015. And so, as 2016 begins, readers might well wonder what biological culprits — parasites, bacteria and viruses — are lurking out there, ready to unleash another outbreak of something terrible on an unsuspecting world.
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- Health Care
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Vaccines for Dengue, Malaria in Final Stage
Union Minister for Science and Technology Harsh Vardhan, on Sunday claimed indigenous vaccines against dengue and malaria are in an advanced stage of development.
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- South Asia
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- vaccines