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Campaign for Affordable Medicine Gains Ground in South Africa
Patient and leading health organisations in South Africa have now joined a Fix the Patent Laws campaign launched in 2011 by Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) and Doctors Without Borders (MSF) to push for reform of the country’s current patent laws.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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3D eye tech social enterprise giving gift of sight
Dr. Hong Sheng Chiong's talk at TEDxAuckland last month was met with a standing ovation. Yet what he had to say is really just the beginning of an open-source journey to end preventable blindness globally; and it begins with a life-changing invention designed especially for those living in poverty.
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- Education, Health Care
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How the Red Cross Raised Half a Billion Dollars for Haiti and Built Six Homes
The neighborhood of campeche sprawls up a steep hillside in Haiti’s capital city, Port-au-Prince. Goats rustle in trash that goes forever uncollected. Children kick a deflated volleyball in a dusty lot below a wall with a hand-painted logo of the American Red Cross.
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- Health Care
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- Latin America
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Improving Rural Health Care, One Boat Trip At a Time
More than 10 years ago, Sanjoy Hazarika heard about the death of a mother in a remote island in Assam, a state in northeast India, because she couldn’t get to the hospital in time. This led the soft-spoken professor to think: Why not bring the hospital to the people?
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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A New U.N. Health Goal Targets Folks 69 and Under. Ageism or Realism?
In September, the U.N. will vote to adopt 17 Sustainable Development Goals (aka SDGs). They cover issues like poverty, health and climate change. The idea is to encourage the 192 U.N. member states to establish policies that will make the world a better place over the next 15 years.
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- Environment, Health Care
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- Europe & Eurasia
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JHU undergrads design tool to support family planning efforts in developing regions
New kit may help train global health providers to insert and remove contraceptive implants.
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- Health Care, Technology
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Gates pledges $776M for malnutrition, unlocks UK commitments
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation — the world’s largest private foundation — will spend $776 million over the next six years to fight malnutrition, a strong signal of support for a historically underfunded sector, according to the foundation’s leaders.
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- Health Care
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- nutrition, philanthropy
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Disrupting Markets, Building Brands: Achieving scale at the BoP is anything but business as usual
It might be difficult to achieve scale in health care businesses in emerging markets, but it’s possible. Or at least that’s what Amitava Chattopadhyay, the GlaxoSmithKline chaired professor of corporate innovation at INSEAD, says. And he’s got examples to prove it.
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- Health Care
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