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Watch Out, Guinea Worm, Here Comes Jimmy Carter
This past fall, President Jimmy Carter, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002, celebrated his 90th birthday. Looking ahead, he's also hoping to celebrate the global eradication of Guinea worm disease (also known as dracunculiasis).
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Spending on Medical Research Falls in U.S. While Growing Globally
Spending on medical research is waning in the United States, and this trend could have dire consequences for patients, physicians and the health care industry as a whole, a new analysis reveals.
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- Education, Health Care
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Three NGOs Fighting Tuberculosis with Mobile Tech
Tuberculosis kills over a million people each year, mostly in developing countries, where poor public health systems hamper efforts to diagnose and treat it. But NGOs are now embracing new mobile health technologies that could help fight the disease more efficiently and cost-effectively.
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- Health Care, Technology
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CHAI as a Disruptive Market Force (Part 2): Despite successes, challenges remain in getting health commodities to those who most need them
A focused market-shaping approach remains a relatively young and rapidly evolving dimension of global health, but CHAI and its partners have demonstrated that market shaping can be used to impact outcomes and achieve significant savings for governments and donors.
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- Health Care
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- supply chains
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How Nanobiophysics Can Stop Ebola and Other Global Pandemics
In an age of cell phones, human genome sequencing, and Google self-driving cars, even the world’s best hospitals (and airports) are still relying upon a thermometer (a 400-year-old technology) to decide who to quarantine for Ebola. The result of these antiquated approaches for diagnosing Ebola has resulted in over 1,400 Ebola suspects in the U.S. today who still have not received a definitive diagnosis.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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Health Minister JP Nadda for Innovation of Cheaper New Drugs
Union Health Minister JP Nadda today underlined the need for innovation of new drugs at low cost which are affordable to the poorest, even as he sought to strike a balance between the commercial and medical spendings.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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CHAI as a Disruptive Market Force (Part 1): Ensuring access means more than getting the right drugs to the right people at the right time
By actively engaging stakeholders on the supply and demand sides of the market, The Clinton Health Access Initiative helps overcome access challenges and gets health care commodities to the people who need them the most, write CHAI leaders David Ripin and Danielle Kuczynski. But what does ‘market shaping’ do to help those most in need?
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- Health Care
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Two Leading Ebola Vaccines Show ‘Acceptable Safety’
The World Health Organization (WHO) announced that two promising Ebola vaccines appear safe and could soon be tested in West Africa, as the agency wrapped up an expert meeting in Geneva earlier today.
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- Health Care
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- vaccines
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