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A $20 Gadget that Can Save 70,000 Mothers a Year
The lives of tens of thousands of new mothers around the world could be saved by a simple, hand-held, British-made device costing only £12, which runs on a mobile-phone charger and is set to be introduced in hospitals across Africa, India and Pakistan.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Europe & Eurasia
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Will Indian Generic Pharma Players Live Up to Their Billing?
Compared with many other industries in the country, save for the software industry, the Indian pharmaceutical sector’s performance has been impressive and its future secure.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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Japanese Encephalitis: China Denies India’s Request for Additional Doses of Vaccine
China has refused to supply additional doses of the Japanese encephalitis vaccine to India, raising concerns over control of the mosquito-borne disease which intensifies during the rainy season.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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- vaccines
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Weekly Roundup – Women are THE ‘emerging market’
Over the next five years, women will have purchasing power valued at $6 trillion. That makes them "the world’s largest ‘emerging market,’" according to Jeni Klugman and Purnima Mane.
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- Health Care
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Ebola’s low-down on high tech
Advanced equipment has been developed to help protect health-care workers, but the gear may not be helpful in poor countries.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Gates Foundation makes its biggest-ever equity investment in German biotech
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation said it would invest $52 million in CureVac, a German biotechnology company that develops vaccines and immunotherapies, marking the foundation's biggest-ever equity investment.
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- Health Care
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Mister Sister clinics roll on
The Mister Sister initiative started almost three years ago is making a positive contribution at enhanced access to primary health care in rural and remote populations in the Otjozondjupa, Omaheke and Khomas Regions.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Go-Girl Marketing: Show Me The Impact?: Why companies should invest in maternal health, not just slogans
Women consumers have always valued brands and products that make the world a better place. But while go-girl marketing is a step in the right direction, it needs to be followed-up with action. One way to do this is high impact corporate philanthropy: evidence-based programs, developed in partnership with experts and supported by a major cash investment. That’s real brand alignment.
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- Health Care
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