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UNAIDS and Lancet Commission to put forward recommendations on AIDS and global health for the post-2015 debate
The UNAIDS and Lancet Commission: Defeating AIDS – Advancing global health is meeting in London on the future of AIDS and global health in the post-2015 era—the recommendations will be published in The Lancet later this year.
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- Health Care
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Nathealth and Nasscom in Pact to Deliver Healthcare Services in India
“The idea is that healthcare cannot go to next level without IT. So, there is an opportunity for businesses to collaborate."
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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Merck Serono Supports India’s Two-tier Drug Pricing Policy
The US Chamber of Commerce may think India is an inhospitable terrain for innovation, but surprisingly, Big Pharma doesn't agree.
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- Education, Health Care
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- South Asia
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- research, supply chains
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Merck expands its Capacity Advancement Campaign to Mozambique
Merck Germany has expanded the Capacity Advancement Program first rolled out in Kenya to Mozambique, a move to show its taking Africa seriously.
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- Environment, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- supply chains
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How to Keep Clean-Burning Cookstoves From Gathering Dust: Devices that cut down on respiratory diseases too often aren’t being used
Smoky indoor cook fires and traditional stoves lead to 2 million deaths per year. In response, various programs have distributed cookstoves to 830 million people over the past 50 years. Unfortunately, many of these clean-burning cookstoves are unused. New monitoring technologies are being designed to find out why.
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- Education, Health Care, Technology
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CDC health projects improve disease detection and control
The US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) global health security (GHS) projects on early disease detection, response and prevention in Uganda and Vietnam have resulted in improvements in those areas.
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- Education, Health Care, Technology
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Pakistan: Where conspiracy theories can cost a child’s life
American parents may have the luxury of being able to buy into odd ideas about vaccines — their children are protected by others' immunity. But elsewhere, the results are tragic.
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- Education, Health Care
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Africa: Narrow Funding Base ‘Puts WHO Drug Programme At Risk’
The future of a WHO programme that ensures the quality of medicines for numerous global health NGOs and UN agencies is vulnerable unless more donors start funding it, health experts have warned.
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- Health Care
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- philanthropy
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