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Faith-Based Care Invisible to Health Researchers
Christian, Islamic and other faith-based organisations provide extensive healthcare in the world’s poorest places, but are invisible to global health researchers, according to a series of papers published this month in medical journal The Lancet.
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June’s Most Popular Posts on NextBillion: From microfinance ‘haters’ to M-PESA challengers
Our most-read and most-shared posts for the month of June included an impassioned riposte in the microfinance debate, an analysis of changes in Kenya’s world-leading mobile money market, and appreciation for the value of health microinsurance.
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Are Pharma Giants Living Up to Big Promises on Development?
he pharmaceutical industry plays a fundamental role in achieving international development targets. This was recognised in the millennium development goals (MDGs), which explicitly mention that providing access to affordable essential drugs in low- and middle-income countries has to be achieved “in cooperation with pharmaceutical companies”. Yet efforts to track progress towards the MDGs have focused mainly on government action rather than corporate contributions.
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Viewpoint: India Must Keep Patent Laws for Manufacture of Cheap Generic Drugs
Recently, trade ministers from 10 Asean countries, India, China, Japan, Australia, New Zealand and South Korea gathered to negotiate a deal on the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) trade agreement. But, RCEP negotiations on intellectual property (IP) are at a standstill because India and the Asean countries are unwilling to trade away health by adopting IP provisions that go beyond what is required of them under international trade rules.
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Feel Better Now, Pay Later: AfriMedico founders are hoping an ancient Japanese drug sales system will work in Africa
Okigusuri is a drug sales system that worked for centuries in Japan and has been successfully exported to other Asian countries. The founders of AfriMedico are betting the system – in which households are given a box of medicine, and they pay only for what they use – will work in Africa, too.
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NASA Langley Helps Drone Technology Get Its ‘Kitty Hawk Moment’
Tousands of patients at an annual outdoor free clinic in Wise County were treated to a unique sight recently when for the first time medical supplies flew in on an unmanned drone.
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Sanofi Preps for ‘Profitable’ Dengue Vaccine Rollout in 20 Countries
With more than $1.5 billion in development costs and 20 years of research on the line, Sanofi ($SNY) is getting revved up to launch its world-first dengue vaccine later this year. And if the company's predictions are correct, the shot will not only be a big deal for patients in the developing world--it'll be a highly profitable product to boot.
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Partnerships and Innovation to Defeat Malaria: An Interview With Dr. David Reddy
Dr David Reddy is CEO of Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV), a product development partnership that works with both the public and private sectors to facilitate the discovery, development and delivery of new antimalarial drugs. Before his public lecture held at the Crawford School (presentation available here), Dr Reddy sat down with Camilla Burkot to talk about MMV’s role in tackling malaria. You can listen to the podcast here and read the full transcript here. For a summary of their discussion, read on.
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