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OPINION: Ebola epidemic is a ‘Black Swan’ event, say U of M infectious disease experts
West Africa’s Ebola epidemic is a “Black Swan” event that is likely to severely alter how the world approaches future global public health crises — even more so than the AIDS epidemic has done — according to a commentary published Friday in JAMA Internal Medicine by Michael Osterholm, director of the University of Minnesota’s Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP).
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Pharmaceutical companies, WHO help India in HIV/AIDS drug crisis
(Reuters) - Indian companies and global health groups are stepping up efforts to provide a critical medicine for the country's free HIV/AIDS drugs program after more than 150,000 patients risked going without their dosages this month.
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A new challenge
The Gates Foundation’s Grand Challenges in Global Health programme is a decade old. How has it done, and what should it do in the future?
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Here’s How Nigeria Beat Ebola
It took 18,500 interviews, but Nigeria managed to contain the Ebola outbreak.
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Pfenex And PATH Partner On Vaccines
Pfenex Inc., a clinical-stage biotechnology company engaged in the development of high-value biosimilar therapeutics and difficult to manufacture proteins, today announced the initiation of a multi-product research program with PATH.
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SC Johnson Rolls Out Bottom-of-the-Pyramid Marketing Strategy in Ghana
SC Johnson, the Wisconsin-based company, is selling cleaning and pest control products in Ghana while contributing to local efforts to reduce the risks of contracting malaria.
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Meet the Company That’s Bringing the LED Revolution to the Developing World
Yesterday three physicists won the Nobel Prize in Physics for creating blue-light LEDs, which makes the LED white lights we find everywhere possible.
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Ebola cost to W.Africa economy could top $32 bn: World Bank
The deadly Ebola epidemic could deal a $32 billion-plus blow to the West African economy over the next year if officials cannot get it under control, the World Bank warned Wednesday.
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