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Access and Equity in Reproductive Health: Ensuring equity through a total market approach
A "total market approach" is a strategy to empower all sectors, public and private, to more efficiently reach specific market segments, increasing the demand for family planning products. How to build a TMA and why the NGO PATH is pursuing the model with governments in low-income countries.
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- Environment, Health Care
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Global Financial Injection ‘Needed to Transform Development of Antibiotics’
"No new classes of antibiotics have been created for decades and our current drugs are becoming less effective as resistance increases," O'Neill explains, of the rationale behind the report.
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- Health Care
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Twitter Top Ten
This week brought a number of developments in global health, social enterprise and financial inclusion - some promising, some disturbing, and one bittersweet. As usual, we’ve highlighted a sample of the reaction to these events on Twitter, along with some long-form pieces that vividly describe some of the big challenges and small triumphs in the sectors we cover.
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- Education, Health Care
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Women-Led Startup Develops Cost-Conscious Medical Devices for Emerging Countries
Sisu Global Health co-founder and CEO Carolyn Yarina painted a pretty dire picture of emerging countries’ limited access to medical devices during he company’s pitch at DreamIt Health Baltimore. To tackle that problem, it is working with physicians, nurses and engineers in some of these countries to develop sanitary and safe medical devices than what they currently use that are more affordable than devices that are the standard of care in the U.S.
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- Health Care
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D-Rev CEO: We Build Medical Devices for People who Live on Less than $4 a Day
Most medical equipment companies don’t regularly top “most innovative” lists. But D-Rev isn’t your typical medical device maker. The San Francisco-based non-profit wants to help the world’s poorest individuals, who subsist on less than a few dollars per day. Its products include an $80 prosthetic knee and a phototherapy device to treat infants with jaundice.
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- Health Care
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Bill and Melina Gates: Autopsies Could Prevent Epidemics, Save Countless Lives
Bill and Melinda Gates believe that performing "minimal autopsies" on dead children could save countless lives.
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- Health Care
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- public health
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Solar-Powered ATMs to Deliver Clean Drinking Water in Pakistan
Punjab province is set to launch an innovation for water-short Pakistan: Solar-powered ATMs that dispense clean water when a smart card is scanned.
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- Agriculture, Energy, Health Care
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- South Asia
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Experts Call for Global Research Fund for Antibiotics, Ebola and Other Neglected Diseases
There were no drugs to treat Ebola in the outbreak that devastated three west African countries, other diseases of the poor are neglected and the pipeline of new antibiotics has dried up. Experts are calling for a $10 billion fund to pay for research and development ahead of the World Health Assembly in Geneva next week.
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- Education, Health Care
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