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Breakthrough Global Agreement Sharply Lowers Price of Early Infant Diagnosis of HIV
Global partners in the Diagnostics Access Initiative have joined with Roche Diagnostics to announce a 35% reduction in the price for HIV early infant diagnostic technologies. The new access price is US$ 9.40 per test, including proprietary reagents and consumables associated with diagnosing HIV in very young children. Partners involved in the negotiation of this reduced access price include UNAIDS, the Clinton Health Access Initiative Inc., the United States President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and UNITAID.
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Bridging Gap in the Health Care Sector: AfDB Offers Strategic Analysis on Financing Innovatively With the Private Sector
“The relevance of private sector role in delivering innovative health care to the poorest people, with the view to achieving global goal,” was underscored at a side event organized today in Addis-Ababa, Ethiopia by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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‘Arogya Sakhi’ Tablets Are Revolutionising Indian Rural Healthcare
It is common knowledge that health care services in rural India are not easily accessible and health awareness among the people is poor. Swayam Shikshan Prayog (SSP), a learning and development organization has stepped in to improve the situation in rural Maharashtra through a programme called Arogya Sakhi reports The Better India.
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- South Asia
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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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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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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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- vaccines
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