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Ebola drug trials to be fast-tracked in West Africa
Experimental Ebola drugs including compounds from Mapp Biopharmaceutical, Sarepta and Tekmira will be tested in affected West African states for the first time in a bid to fast-track trials, the Wellcome Trust said on Tuesday.
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The Model T Meets Development Tech: Changing the business model for global health data collection
There’s a lack of data in international development and global health, because collection can be time-consuming and expensive. Magpi seeks to lower the cost and speed up the process through mass production and standardization; the firm’s applications enable people in the ?eld to collect data on any mobile device.
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GE Foundation Expands ImPACT Africa program to Address Critical Shortage of Health Workers in Kenya
The GE Foundation announced today a new Commitment to Action with the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) to expand the ImPACT (Improving Perioperative & Anesthetic Care Training) Africa program in Kenya.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Ebola Death Rate 70 Percent, WHO Says in Dire New Forecast
World Health Organization researchers issued a dire new forecast for the Ebola epidemic Tuesday, one that sees 20,000 cases by November, much sooner than previous estimates. And 70 percent of patients are dying.
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Obama Goes to UN With Islamic State, Ebola on Agenda
President Barack Obama heads to the United Nations General Assembly this week with two missions: to rally international support for a coalition against Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria and to back his plan to fight the Ebola virus in West Africa.
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Gates Foundation to Aid India in ‘Toilets For All’ Program
The Urban Development Ministry and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation have agreed on a partnership to promote user-friendly toilets to ensure universal sanitation in the country.
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- South Asia
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Wireless sensor warns if vaccines get too hot
A wireless sensor that sends text message alerts to healthcare workers could help better protect temperature-sensitive vaccines and provide crucial data on storage, transport and distribution infrastructures in developing nations, according to its inventors.
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UN announces mission to combat Ebola, declares outbreak ‘threat to peace and security’
The Security Council, in its first emergency meeting on a public health crisis, declared the Ebola outbreak in West Africa a threat to peace and security and announced that the United Nations will deploy a new emergency health mission.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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