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Humans give malaria to mosquitoes – we need a vaccine to stop this
On Wednesday, the world marks World Mosquito Day to commemorate the 1897 discovery by British doctor Sir Ronald Ross that malaria in people is transmitted to and from mosquitoes. Ross won a Nobel prize for his discovery, and, since then, mosquitoes have been enemy No 1 when it comes to defeating a disease that takes a life every single minute – most of them children in sub-Saharan Africa. But on this day, let’s focus on approaching malaria in a surprising new way: a vaccine to stop humans from giving malaria to mosquitoes.
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- Education, Health Care
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- product design, research, vaccines
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Sanford looks to build hundreds of Ghana clinics
Sanford Health is looking to open more than 300 clinics in Ghana in the next five years to treat millions of patients. The Dakotas-based health network has opened five clinics in the African nation since 2012 and broke ground last week for a sixth.The clinics have treated more than 180,000 patients.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Does emergency nutrition cripple local economies?
Providing emergency nutrition in a way that undermines the capacity of local economies to respond to food insecurity and malnutrition themselves seems a clear violation of the 'do-no-harm' principle.
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- Health Care
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- nutrition
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Liberian Natives Work To Fight Ebola Outbreak From Boston
In Boston, some natives of Liberia are working to improve sanitation conditions and train health workers on the ground in their homeland, as the country and two of its neighbors battle a deadly Ebola outbreak.
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- Education, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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When a Cure Isn’t Enough: Exploring the challenges of tuberculosis treatment
Patients diagnosed with TB must undergo at least six months of consistent treatment. This extended time frame makes it difficult in some parts of the world to ensure that patients actually receive their medication. That’s why Operation ASHA developed an innovative eCompliance system.
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Armed Men Raid Liberia Ebola Quarantine Center
A group of young men armed with clubs, claiming that "there's no Ebola" in Liberia, raided a quarantine center for the deadly disease in Monrovia overnight, prompting about 20 patients infected with the deadly virus to flee, a witness said Sunday.
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- Education, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Mobile Midwifery Delivers Health to Ghanaian Moms
One mobile phone app delivers time-sensitive text messages or voicemails to pregnant women and new mothers; the other is for nurses. Together they are doing wonders for maternal and pregnancy health care and raising community awareness at the same time.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Weekly Roundup (8/16/14) – Empowering the BoP. Or Not: When the few drown out the many
Most people on the planet are poor, but one could argue that their many voices are too often drowned out by the few. We dive into the debate.
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- Health Care
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