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A $2 Test Might Have Helped This Man With HIV Avoid Daily Spinal Taps
His body wasted from AIDS, Fred Muzaya sat up in his bed on a January morning at Mulago Hospital in Kampala, Uganda, and faintly smiled at a doctor he couldn't see.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Synthetic biology’s first malaria drug meets market resistance
Commercial use of genetically engineered yeast to make medicine has modest impact.
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Study: Vaginal Ring Offers Some Protection Against HIV
An insertable vaginal ring containing a month's supply of a continuous-release HIV prevention drug reduced the risk of HIV in African women by at least 27 percent, a new study found.
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Necessity Breeds Lifesaving Invention – and a Hub to Launch More Innovation
Dr. Dayo Olakulehin, a young doctor in Lagos, Nigeria, fell asleep while manually ventilating a 5-year-old boy with breathing difficulties. That led him to invent D-Box, a cheap, portable, rechargeable ventilator – and then he helped develop a company to launch the device and other medical innovations in Africa.
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- Health Care, Social Enterprise
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Samsung to Launch Pasha Centre-Like Digital Villages In Kenya, Others
Samsung said that it will be launching Pasha Centers-Like Digital Villages in Kenya, Ethiopia and Tanzania this year that will focus on the challenges in undeserved and rural communities, provide people in this areas with access to ICT so they can learn about and utilize educational and health solutions, reports Footprint to Africa.
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- Energy, Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Sanergy, Inc., which wastes not, secures $1.7 million
Sanergy, Inc., a social enterprise that makes prefabricated concrete toilets that turn human waste into fertilizer, has raised $1.7 million to expand operations in Nairobi, where it is headquartered.
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- Health Care, Investing
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Moving Beyond Charity: How CURE is changing how low-income patients perceive health care
CURE, the charity-based group of hospitals perhaps best known for its innovative treatment of hydrocephalus, might soon also be recognized for its seamless shift to a more sustainable model. That’s the goal of Derek Johnson, who has served since June as CURE’s director for development and sustainability, after many years as the executive director of CURE Uganda. He discussed the organization's innovations and its efforts to move beyond a strictly charity-based model in a recent interview with NextBillion.
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India Sets Target to Eliminate Malaria by 2030
The Centre on Thursday set the target of eliminating malaria by 2030 after neighbouring countries like Sri Lanka and Nepal reported no deaths due to the vector-borne disease in the past several years.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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