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Ebola outbreak spreads fear in rural Sierra Leone
Weeks under the strain of bad news, much uncertainty and no direct support are taking a toll on rural towns like Rotifunk, in Bumpeh Chiefdom, the focus of my all-volunteer nonprofit Sherbro Foundation Sierra Leone.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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South African Medical Research Council and PATH launch new Global Health Innovation Accelerator
The new South Africa-based Global Health Innovation Accelerator (GHIA) launching today will speed the development and introduction of sustainable, high-impact health technologies that can save the lives of vulnerable women and children in South Africa and beyond.
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- Education, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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India’s Welcome Reform Of Its Ghastly Food Aid Program
India is making essential changes to the way that it operates its food aid program for the poor.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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- South Asia
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Dengue vaccine is just a year away, researchers say
A new vaccine that can halve the number of dengue cases provides a welcome shot to fight a deadly disease that infects around 390 million people every year in the tropics.
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- Education, Health Care
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OPINION: Ebola shows the need to rethink global public health
NEW YORK - The horrific Ebola epidemic in at least four West African countries (Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Nigeria) demands not only an emergency response to halt the outbreak; it also calls for rethinking some basic assumptions of global public health.
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- Health Care
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How far off are drones in the delivery of rural care?
A Silicon Valley startup called Matternet is pioneering a pilot program that uses drones to connect rural care providers with major hospitals in Bhutan.
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- Health Care, Impact Assessment
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- South Asia
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WHO backs use of experimental Ebola drugs in West Africa outbreak
It is ethical to offer unproven drugs or vaccines to people infected or at risk in West Africa's deadly Ebola outbreak, a World Health Organisation panel of medical ethics experts ruled on Tuesday, but cautioned supplies will be limited.
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- Education, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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An easier way to manipulate malaria genes
New approach to knocking out parasite’s genes could make it easier to identify drug targets.
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- Education, Health Care
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