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Indian Medtech Startup Gets $10M Injection to Be Facebook for Healthcare
Indian healthcare communication platform Lybrate announced today it has secured US$10.2 million in series A funding from Tiger Global Management, Indian business tycoon Ratan Tata, and existing investor Nexus Venture Partners. The company previously received US$1.2 million in seed funding.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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- impact investing
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Cautious Optimism: Calculating the Actual Value of a Global Health Game Changer
We all know that vaccines have had huge success in protecting children from deadly diseases. However, the health benefits of vaccines have not been shared equally across the globe.
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- Health Care
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Greek Debt Crisis: ‘Of All the Damage, Healthcare Has Been Hit the Worst’
Above a dark, tatty arcade of wholesale button traders and empty shop fronts in Thessaloniki, Greece’s second largest city, one mother was rocking a sick baby and another was carrying a toddler as they waited to see a volunteer paediatrician in the brightly painted clinic run by the Greek branch of the NGO Doctors of the World.
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- Health Care
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- Europe & Eurasia
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Oral Cholera Vaccine Could Speed Control Efforts, Trial Finds
An oral vaccine has reduced cases of severe cholera by nearly 40 percent in a key trial in Bangladeshi slums, suggesting the shot could be used routinely to help endemic countries control the life-threatening disease.
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- South Asia
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Food Politics Hits India’s Most Malnourished Children
Clutching battered metal plates, the children waited patiently in a remote central Indian village for the two small flat pieces of bread and scoop of boiled potato curry that would be their only full meal that day.
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- South Asia
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An Essential for Essential Surgery: Low-resource optimized anesthesia machines needed to help fill global need
The majority of health care facilities in sub-Saharan Africa do not have reliable access to electricity. If they have access at all, these facilities face weekly or even daily outages that make putting a patient’s consciousness during surgery in the hands of an electricity-dependent anesthesia machine a dangerous proposition.
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- Education, Health Care, Technology
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Better Housing Architecture Could Halve Malaria Cases
Improved housing with features such as closed eaves could lower malaria cases by half in some settings, according to a study.
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Why Transporting Vegetables Is Not So Different From Delivering Vaccines
Every day in low-income countries throughout the world, tons of fresh fruit and vegetables fail to reach their destinations or become damaged and inedible along the way. By contrast, highly processed foods – likely to include large amounts of fat, sugar or preservatives – reach these same destinations, ready to be eaten by people in need of food. This simultaneous availability of less healthy processed food and shortage of nutritious food is a key factor in the growing combination of undernutrition and obesity throughout many low-income countries.
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- Health Care
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- supply chains, vaccines
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