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PRESS RELEASE: New Approach on Buying HIV Drugs Will Save $100 Million
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria is putting into place a new agreement for purchasing HIV medication that will save close to US$100 million over two years, money that can be reinvested in lifesaving drugs and programs all over the world.
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- Health Care
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- impact investing
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Orange, USAID announce mHealth initiative for Africa
Telecom services provider Orange announced its mobile health (mHealth) development initiative with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) – targeting Africa.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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How Selfies Could Detect a Common Deadly Disease
People might take selfies someday to detect a deadly yet treatable medical condition, according to an award-winning team of medical inventors.
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- Health Care, Technology
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We can’t hope to solve global ills without action against poverty
Poverty is still one of the driving forces behind ill health, a lack of access to healthcare and medicines and consistent underdevelopment.
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- Health Care
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Champions of the Toilet: The best way to solve open defecation, the authors say, is to focus on demand, not construction
Access to toilets doesn’t always fix the problem of open defecation; in fact, partial coverage generates insignificant health benefits. Therefore, to address India’s malnutrition and health crisis, it is important to promote widespread adoption of toilet use.
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- Education, Health Care
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- public health
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Open Eyes, Open Source: Peek’s low-cost ophthalmoscope looks to gain traction, expertise through collaborations
Peek Retina, a low-cost ophthalmoscope adapter, will operate on a split pricing model. NGOs and health institutions operating in low-income countries will be able to purchase the adapter at a reduced price, while it will be sold at a higher price in high-resource settings.
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- Health Care, Social Enterprise, Technology
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Telemedicine Africa Rolls Out Virtual eHealth Centers in South Africa
Telemedicine Africa has collaborated with Dimension Data and the IDC to set up private telehealth centres in South Africa.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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The Coming Global Boom in Private Healthcare
To many Americans, whose multi-trillion dollar government has just executed a hostile takeover of the healthcare industry, the future of care looks like lawyer-laden socialized medicine in General Motors GM -1.68%-style hospital factories.
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- Health Care
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