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The Benefits of Public-Private Partnerships in Global Health
If countries are healthier and more prosperous, then we all benefit. After all, global health means economic health. This is one reason why many governments in wealthier countries have helped fund disease prevention in developing countries, far outside their borders. It’s the right thing to do, but it’s also smart policy.
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- Health Care
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How Millennium Challenge Corp. Partnership Will Help PEPFAR ‘go local’ in South Africa
The U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief and the U.S. Agency for International Development work together to help strengthen public health systems in South Africa by funding ARV distribution and equipment.
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- Environment, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- governance, supply chains
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In the Americas, One in Five People with Tuberculosis is Unaware of the Disease
In 2012, almost 220,000 cases were reported, and an estimated 19,000 people died from tuberculosis in the Americas.
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- Education, Health Care
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Ebola Outbreak in Guinea May Spread to Liberia
An outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus is believed to have killed at least 59 people in Guinea and may already have spread to neighboring Liberia, health officials said Monday.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Health Centers Paying Off in Kenyan Slums: Access Afya’s award-winning model is based on empowering clients
Access Afya runs two micro-clinics in Nairobi slums with plans to expand to four sites by the end of 2014. Monthly revenue increased more than 150 percent in 12 months and both sites are covering between 70-80 percent of their operating costs in 2014. Access Afya’s goal is to have all four sites, current and planned, self-sustaining by the end of the year.
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- Environment, Health Care
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Toilet Tech Fair Tackles Global Sanitation Woes
Who would have expected a toilet to one day filter water, charge a cellphone or create charcoal to combat climate change? These are lofty ambitions beyond what most of the world's 2.5 billion people with no access to modern sanitation would expect. Yet, scientists and toilet innovators around the world say these are exactly the sort of goals needed to improve global public health amid challenges such as poverty, water scarcity and urban growth.
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- Health Care
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USAID’s partnership with GE in Kenya will help health facilities buy high-tech equipment
Health care providers in Kenya will soon have a much better shot at getting a bank loan to buy high-tech medical equipment — as long as the machines are made by General Electric.
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- Health Care
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Strong health systems, the ‘secret ingredient’
In his 2013 State of the Union Address, U.S. President Barack Obama set forth a vision for achieving what would be one of the greatest contributions to human progress — eliminating extreme poverty. As a global health community, we have the skills and know-how to accomplish these goals, but we must work together and recognize that the ‘secret ingredient’ that binds all of our collective knowledge, skills and interventions is a strong health system.
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- Education, Health Care
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