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Private sector a Key Partner in Canadian Maternal Health Initiative
Tying Canada's overseas development assistance to private-sector partnerships has been a controversial proposition for the Harper government, and one that Development Minister Christian Paradis makes no apologies for.
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DesignMedix Awarded $3 Million to Develop Low-Cost, Safe Malaria Drug
DesignMedix, Inc., a biotech startup with ties to Portland State University, received a grant for almost $3 million from the National Institutes of Health to continue development and manufacture of a new anti-malarial drug.
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‘Lean So Far Into It That You’re At Risk’: … and 20 other quotable quotes from the Global Health & Innovation Conference
The Global Health & Innovation Conference, held over two days on the Yale University campus, provides an opportunity for some of the most innovative thinkers in health care around the world to exchange ideas.
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- Environment, Health Care
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OPINION: How to Close the Health Gap Between Rich and Poor
With aggressively scaled-up health investments, 10 million lives could be saved annually, beginning in 2035.
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- Environment, Health Care
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- North Africa & Near East
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African Health-Technology Deals on the Rise
Africa's rising middle class may see a rise in Private Equity and Venture Capital investments in the continent's healthcare industry
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Musa, Swiss Partner to Help African SMEs in Healthcare
Private equity company Musa Capital is the partner in an investment fund that plans to develop small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs) providing health services to the poor in various African countries.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Three Recommendations to Foster Development in Africa’s Health Markets
As the CEO of a company that markets portable, power-free medical instrument sterilizers to hospitals and health centers in East Africa, Dr. Bernstein has seen first hand the degree to which people are ready to pay for safe and effective medical care. But at the same time there is a conscious effort to avoid the creation of a completely segmented health system where the quality of care is much higher for those who can afford it from the private sector, and huge portions of the population are unable to participate in the market.
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‘Innovative’ Sughavazhvu healthcare gaining popularity in rural India
A healthcare system for rural India, dubbed Sughavazhvu, which stands for 'happy life' in Tamil, is gaining popularity thanks to it's use of innovative techniques for providing accessible and appropriate primary healthcare.
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