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Mobile technology supports frontline health workers
South Africa’s standard paper-based health system is inefficient and ineffective. Through Mobenzi, workers can organise patient data centrally and swiftly. It allows illness identification and treatment, referrals, and patient interaction.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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WHO to Start New Global Health Initiative For Needle Safety
At the TEDMED conference in Washington, DC, Dr. Marie-Paule Kieny, assistant director general of the World Health Organization (WHO), revealed that the organization will announce its third-ever global health initiative and policy in October. The initiative this time is around needle safety
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- Health Care
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Glaxo’s Ebola Vaccine and the Rise of Tropical-Disease R&D
Financial arguments may finally be leading Big Pharma to increase its minuscule investment in research and development of new drugs for tropical diseases.
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- Education, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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The Man Who Feeds 1.2 Million Kids A Day
Running a massive school meals program that feeds malnourished kids, Manoj Kumar is on a mission to show how entrepreneurs can make real inroads in tackling India's age-old social problems.
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- Education, Health Care
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- South Asia
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Gates Foundation Commits $50 Million to Fight Ebola
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation says it is committing $50 million to help combat the growing Ebola outbreak in West Africa.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Merck adds to African m-health
Merck, a German-based pharmaceutical company, has added to a growing amount of mobile-health (m-health) programmes across Africa, channelling efforts to boost SMS-based support systems to help diabetic patients manage their condition.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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OPINION: There Are Far Higher Public Health Priorities For Africa Than Ebola
In a world of limited healthcare resources, we need to make hard decisions that will deliver high-impact outcomes for the most people at the least cost. Giving the WHO an additional half-billion dollars to curb Ebola virus infections would be a poor choice.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- public health
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PRESS RELEASE: World Bank Group’s billion dollar private sector health initiative in Africa is failing to reach the poor
A billion-dollar flagship scheme to support private sector-led health care in Africa is bypassing poor people and concentrating instead on high-end urban hospitals catering mainly for the rich.
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- Health Care
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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