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Genetically engineered mosquitoes could be vital weapon against malaria
An Oxford-based biotech firm is modifying the males of the species to be sterile, effectively making the killers kill themselves.
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Netcare Disputes Oxfam Report Over Hospital Costs in Lesotho
Netcare Ltd. (NTC), a private hospital operator in South Africa and the U.K., said its venture in Lesotho was a “success story” after an Oxfam report alleged it was draining the country’s health resources.
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Why global health should embrace the global precariat
It’s not often you come across a truly visionary op-ed but in my opinion last week’s viewpoint from Guy Standing in The Guardian, ‘Cheer up – a renewed left is coming’, fits the bill. In the piece, Standing says the precariat is today’s (emerging) mass class, and like the proletariat in the 19th and part of the 20th century, it will define a new progressive agenda for this age. Not all the examples he gives of “precariat uprisings” in countries around the globe are convincing, and not everybody shares his analysis, obviously, but the man has a point.
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Filling In the Gaps: Ethiopian entrepreneur launches phone-based medical consultation service
Dr. Yohans Emiru Wodaje Wodaje wanted to launch a website that would provide information on medical topics in different local languages in Ethiopia. Recognizing that more people had access to mobile phones than the Internet, Wodaje decided to switch lines to a phone-based medical consultation service.
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Global Healthcare Donations are Increasing
The neediest nations are getting more financial support for healthcare, while those nations that are slightly better off could be losing out in donations, a University of Washington study says.
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- Health Care
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UNICEF and Global Health Partners Open Market Entry for Innovative HIV Point of Care Diagnostics
he tender is part of a UNICEF and Clinton Health Access Initiative project, funded by UNITAID, to accelerate access to high quality POC HIV diagnostic equipment in seven African countries that carry one third of the world’s HIV burden.
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Social Business in India: Some investors wade in, but most testing waters
Investors meet with frugal innovation, entrepreneurs leave the sector discouraged.
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OPINION: Grand Convergence in Global Health is Realizable
What it will take is a co-ordinated, future-oriented investment strategy.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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