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In Global Healthcare, Quality and Access Are What Matters – Not Who Delivers It
When the UN financing for development conference begins in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa, there’s likely to be a big elephant in the room: the private sector.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Botswana’s Hearing Aid Pioneers Are Betting on Solar Power to Go Global
Six years after developing the prototype of a solar-powered hearing aid, Deaftronics, a Botswana-based company, is readying to take its technology global.
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- Energy, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Raise Taxes on Cigarettes, Other Tobacco Products: WHO
The World Health Organisation has urged governments around the world to increase taxes on cigarettes and other tobacco products to save lives.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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Why Pharmaceutical Firms in India Hardly Took the Village Road
It's easier to spot an auto showroom in a small town than to locate a pharmacy that sells anything beyond cough and cold, and birth-control pills.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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Weekly Roundup 7-3-15, Twitter Top Ten: An NB mashup in honor of America’s birthday
It’s hard work to identify entrepreneurs who are finding solutions and building markets in developing countries. (Certainly harder, for instance, than writing a check to a legacy charity.) It’s even more difficult to decipher the dynamics in these emerging markets and to tweak those dynamics in a way that enables support to reach those who need it. It takes more than money; it takes involvement.
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Getting Vaccines to People Who Need Them Is the Most Important Issue in Global Health
Fear of vaccines has allowed a host of diseases, including measles and whooping cough, to re-surface around the world in recent years.
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Integrating NCDs Into Post-2015 Agenda: A shared value approach to addressing non-communicable diseases in Africa
Non-communicable diseases account for two out of three deaths and half of all disability worldwide, with cardiovascular disease specifically killing more Africans over age 30 than any other condition. Despite this growing threat, the resources devoted to curbing NCDs are woefully insufficient to the challenge.
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Can Mobile Money Improve Your Health?
According to insights provided byMondato, the general rule of thumb is that when something appears too good to be true, it very likely is. Imagine that you were unfamiliar with the concept of insurance. A stranger at your door promises that if you pay 1000 shillings per month via your phone, if at some point you or someone in your family were to fall ill, the man’s company will pay up to 300 times that amount to cover the medical expenses. You would certainly be forgiven for being highly circumspect, at the very minimum.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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