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Meet the Tiny Company Behind the Experimental Antibodies for Ebola
The companies manufacturing an experimental drug treating two American Ebola patients aren't among the largest multinational pharmaceuticals in the world. In fact, leading the effort is a small nine-employee firm in San Diego.
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- Health Care
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Mobile tech on the Africa health frontier
Billions have been spent to bring AIDS medicines to patients in Africa, but a technology with just as much lifesaving potential can be had for pennies: the text message.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Moving Health Commodities in Africa: Private sector transport for public health systems
Transporting health commodities in Africa is challenging on many fronts, and it makes sense for some ministries of health to utilize private firms to get the job done. VillageReach has researched the possibilities and developed a set of recommendations to help government entities prepare for outsourcing.
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- Environment, Health Care
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The Countries Where Human Progress Is Fastest and Slowest
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) published its annual Human Development Report, which focuses on human vulnerability worldwide, last week.
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- Health Care, Impact Assessment
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Ebola virus: Britain’s top doctor accuses drug firms of dragging their heels in finding vaccine
Professor John Ashton said the pharmaceutical industry was being slow because it had only affected Africa and not the Western world
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- Health Care
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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OPINION: On AIDS: Three Lessons From Africa
An AIDS fable: Once upon a time, in the years after AIDS went from being a death sentence to a manageable disease, at least for people rich enough to take antiretroviral therapy, many of the people who ran the world believed that these medicines weren’t appropriate for residents of very poor countries.
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- Health Care
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OPINION: The paradox that is Indian healthcare
The best and the worst of facilities exist cheek by jowl. This glaring contradiction needs to be addressed
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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U.S. under pressure to give potentially life-saving medication the green light as experts warn of global pandemic
Health campaigners are today calling for U.S. authorities to speed up their approval of a new drug hoped to be the first cure for the deadly Ebola virus.
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- Education, Health Care
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