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Governments need to ‘join up and scale up’ on health
World Health Day is a chance to reflect on the progress we’ve made since the occasion was first marked in 1950. But it’s also a moment to reflect on the huge challenges that remain. One child dying from preventable causes is one too many — but in reality, 6.6 million die in this way each year.
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- Environment, Health Care
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Weekly Roundup – 4/5/2014: ‘Oooo Shiny!’ applies even in global health, as celebrities can help set public agendas
Given that “public will” and publicity-seeking politicians help set priorities for funding – and funding ultimately saves lives – why not get a celebrity involved in your worthy cause?
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Health Workers Go the Last Mile: Organization is training staff to deliver care in the world’s most remote regions
Last Mile Health’s model recruits, trains, equips, manages and incentivizes frontline health workers, who deliver care door-to-door in remote villages and tackle 75 percent of the burden of the disease in these villages.
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- Education, Environment, Health Care
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- scale, skill development
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Using Ethiopia’s Healthcare Gaps to Do Good and Make a Profit
For a while now, Magnetic Resonance Imaging or MRI scanners have typically been a luxury that both government and private hospitals in Ethiopia have struggled to afford to purchase for in-house use.
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Medtronic and partners are using mobile tech to screen thousands in India for ear infections
In collaboration with a mobile health startup, a design firm and local health clinics, Medtronic is orchestrating a program aimed at improving diagnosis and treatment of ear infections and hearing loss in India, meanwhile supporting its ENT business there.
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- Environment, Health Care, Technology
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How IBM is Using Nanotechnology to Tackle MRSA and HIV
While giving a talk at a conference in Australia in the mid-2000s, IBM Research's lead scientist for the advanced organic materials group, James Hedrick, had an encounter that would make him rethink his career. At one point, Hedrick--who holds more than 100 patents--took a question from a woman in the audience. It wasn't what he was expecting.
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Fears for global health R&D after US budget battle
Future research and development targeting diseases such as HIV, tuberculosis and malaria may be at risk because of across-the-board federal cuts implemented last year by the United States, the largest funder of global health R&D, warns a report.
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Efficiency Is Noble: Study tour, forum focus on promising innovations in health care
IPIHD held its first study tour in India last October in order to bring health system leaders face to face with health care innovators. Three of those innovators, plus 27 more creative firms, will be represented at the third annual IPIHD Forum in Washington, D.C., on April 6.
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- Environment, Health Care
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