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Scaling Mobile for Development: Strengthening the business case for social enterprises, including those delivering health care
The developing world is rapidly gaining access to mobile phones, but still lags in services key to development. This gap presents an opportunity for social entrepreneurs, impact investors, NGOs and mobile operators who would like to achieve positive social impact through commercially viable businesses.
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- Education, Health Care, Impact Assessment, Social Enterprise, Technology
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Experts to map Nigeria’s neglected tropical diseases
Nigerian health officials partnering with international experts have embarked on a national programme to map Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) by analysing data obtained from 14 of the country’s 36 states.
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- Health Care
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Finding real wealth in health industry
It may be the best time ever to be living right now. Over the past four decades, the life expectancy of Asians has increased by more than a decade to more than 70 years, thanks to the development of the healthcare industry. New drugs, medical equipment, therapies, organizations, policies and healthcare systems have emerged one after another, bringing improvements in people's lives and changes in their thinking about health management.
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- Education, Health Care
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Africa Could Manufacture Its Own ARVs Drugs
President John Dramani Mahama has made a strong case for African nations and other developing countries to be supported in the local manufacture of Anti Retroviral Drugs (ARV) to ensure a more affordable treatment of people living with AIDS.
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- Health Care
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‘Quality, a concern for Indian healthcare sector’
As many as 98,000 hospital deaths occur annually due to medical errors, which also increase the cost of treatment for patients, according to K.K. Kalra, Chief Executive Officer of the National Accreditation Board for Hospitals and Healthcare Providers (NABH).
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- Education, Health Care, Technology
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Solar vaccine fridge could save children
Solar fridges could play a vital role in helping aid workers get life-saving vaccines to people in remote parts of developing countries, researchers say.
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- Health Care
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- supply chains, vaccines
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US, 26 countries launch effort to fight outbreaks
The U.S. and 26 other countries began a new effort Thursday to prevent and fight outbreaks of dangerous infectious diseases before they spread around the globe.
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- Health Care
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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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