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Putting ‘Health’ Back into ‘Health Clinics’: It’s not good, statistically speaking, to be a mother or child in Mali, but new approaches might bring change
A move meant to shift community health expenses from the informal sector to authorized local clinics came up short in Mali. An NGO is looking to help fix things with a health savings program and other approaches designed to bridge the gap between the clinics and the communities they serve.
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- Health Care
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Blue Diversion Toilet aims to improve sanitation with built-in filtration system
Austrian design firm EOOS and water research institute Eawag hope to improve sanitation levels in areas of extreme poverty with a mobile toilet that contains its own water filtration system.
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- Health Care
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- public health
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These Printable Tests for HIV And E.Coli Will Bring Diagnosis Anywhere in the World
Cheap, simple diagnostic kits have the potential to revolutionize health care in the developing world. If we can put non-technical tests in the hands of normal people, we can test for diseases more efficiently without building out formal clinic networks. That should help get treatments to people in a more timely way.
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African Hub Set Up to Boost Research Autonomy
African scientists look set to gain greater control over research in their own countries, if an ambitious plan for a regional hub to award grants and develop research capacity bears fruit.
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- Education, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- impact investing, research
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The Social Media Network Saving Lives, No Internet Needed
At one of India’s most prestigious tech universities, IIT Delhi, assistant professor in technology for development Aaditeshwar Seth has been spearheading a social media network for the country’s rural and largely poor population—no Internet required.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- South Asia
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Celebrating World Health Day with Business Ideas
As their earnings increase, people at the BoP tend to consider health a priority expense, opening the door to businesses interested in serving this market. In celebration of today’s World Health Day, Lina M. Salazar Ortegón with Opportunities for the Majority, provides a few ideas for health companies and service providers in search of new opportunities.
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Oral Antibiotics Are Found to Save More Infant Lives
While vaccines, mosquito nets and other health measures have saved millions of children younger than 5 in the last decade, death rates from pneumonia, sepsis and meningitis among babies in the first weeks of life have remained stubbornly high.
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- Health Care
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- vaccines
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Michael Bloomberg Fights Big Tobacco in Uruguay
Michael Bloomberg is a man on a mission. This, of course, isn't the first "noble cause" he's latched on to but the "evil" of tobacco is something he feels particularly strongly about.
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