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Know Thy Hospital: Engineers and entrepreneurs are rethinking medical device design, and the world could be healthier as a result
Well-meaning individuals and organizations from high-income countries often donate medical equipment – mostly used – to hospitals in low-resource settings. But it often fails because it isn’t designed for the "predictable unpredictability" of these settings. Mike Miesen argues that we need innovative devices designed for the needs of the customer, not the donor.
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- Environment, Health Care, Social Enterprise
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- product design
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Non-communicable diseases: Despite their rise, but public knowledge still low
According to Dr Richard Ayah, the principal investigator and lecturer at University of Nairobi, disclosed at a recent meeting of health experts in Nairobi that a study they conducted in Nairobi disclosed that most people do not know what non-communicable diseases are.
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- Education, Health Care
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Haitians sue UN over cholera epidemic
Nearly 1,500 Haitians filed a lawsuit Tuesday seeking compensation from the United Nations for victims of a cholera outbreak that health officials say has killed more than 8,000 people and sickened over 600,000 in the impoverished Caribbean nation.
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Big Pharma still betting on “messed up” Indian drugs market
Global drugmakers have had a nauseous time in India's $14 billion market. Prices have dropped and valuable patents have been overruled as the authorities strive to make medicines affordable for the 70 percent of people living on less than $2 a day.
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- Health Care
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- governance, supply chains, vaccines
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Malaria spreads to higher altitudes due to global warming
Malaria, the deadly mosquito-borne virus that brings debilitating chills and fever in many parts of Southeast Asia and Africa may soon seek higher altitudes on account of global warming, experts warn. New research has found that people living in the highlands of Africa and South America are at an increased risk of catching malaria during hotter years.
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- Health Care
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Girl Power: SHOFCO’s tuition-free schools in Kenya linking communities to health services
Shining Hope for Communities, which is creating girls’ schools in Kenyan slums and linking community services to them, has been recognized for making health care more accessible.
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- Education, Health Care
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German Company Wins Inaugural EU Prize For Innovative Vaccine Technology
The European Commission offered the prize, worth EUR2 million, to encourage inventors to overcome one of the biggest barriers to using vaccines in developing countries: the need to keep them stable at any ambient temperature.
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- Education, Health Care
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- Europe & Eurasia
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The ‘Cursed’ Women Living in Shame in Uganda
Many people in rural areas believe in witchcraft over medical science says Dr Florence Nalubega, a gynaecologist at Kitovu Hospital in Masaka.
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- Education, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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