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Can a High-Tech Wood Stove Save the World?
So, this is cool. It's a stove, powered by wood or cow dung or whatever other combustible material you happen to have lying around, that generates an almost smokeless, gas-like flame -- and also enough electricity to light a room or charge your phone.
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- Environment, Health Care
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- public health
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Weekly Roundup 7-18-15, Twitter Top Ten: Steering global development toward pro-poor trade
Assisting, or in some cases pressuring, countries to improve their performance is where development banks and agencies can make a difference in steering the big aircraft carrier of global development toward pro-poor trade. But without the data and research to know how to back up the dollars, they may be using wooden paddles in rough water.
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From Pilots to Systems (Part 2): Achieving systemic and scalable private sector engagement in tuberculosis care and prevention in Asia
When TB treatment providers are already well connected to the broader health system, and can be reached as a group, the task of engagement is more manageable. But that is the exception and not the rule in global health care markets. The PPM intermediary organization is the beginning of a consolidating force in an otherwise fragmented health care system.
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- Environment, Health Care
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Rural India Healthier Than Urban India, Malayalees Sickest
As much as 86% of the rural population and 82% of the urban population is without health-expenditure support. The average medical expenditure for treating one ailment without being admitted to hospital was Rs 509 in rural India and Rs 639 in urban India. Up to 58% of hospital care occurred in private hospitals in rural India; it was 68% in urban India.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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Sanofi Unveils Restructuring Plans, Prunes Business Units
Sanofi’s (SNY - Analyst Report) newly appointed Chief Executive Officer Olivier Brandicourt, after just three months of being at the helm, has made a big move by declaring plans to reorganize its business. Brandicourt intends to restructure the seven existing business units into five global business units. Along with its existing vaccines unit – Sanofi Pasteur – and the animal health business – Merial, the company plans to create three new global business units, namely, General Medicines & Emerging Markets, Specialty Care and Diabetes & Cardiovascular.
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- Health Care
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Duke Global Health Institute Receives $20M From Gates Foundation
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation provided a $20 million grant to the Duke Global Health Institute (DGHI).
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- Education, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Affordable Healthcare Technologies for Rural India
Imagine a three-year-old child suffering from severe pneumonia, which leads to insufficient oxygen in the blood, at a primary health centre (PHC) in a remote village. The centre has no reliable supply of oxygen. So what does one do? How about a low-cost method for oxygen production in rural areas?
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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Iran Nuclear Deal: Lifting Sanctions Could Transform Business For Pharmaceutical Companies, Ease Financial Roadblocks
European and U.S. pharmaceutical companies have always been allowed to sell medicines and medical devices in Iran, even if they've been hesitant about doing so. But the nuclear deal reached Tuesday could be transformative, not so much by peeling back legal restrictions on the pharmaceutical industry, but rather by tearing down financial roadblocks that could make it significantly easier for companies to do business in Iran in a sector that analysts say is teeming with growth opportunities.
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- Health Care
- Region
- North Africa & Near East
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