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Malaria eradication: Cure all?
A novel approach, using drugs instead of insecticides, may make it easier to eliminate malaria. But it is not without controversy.
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- Health Care
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Tuberculosis trial fails to aid S. African miners
What researchers described as a “radical” bid to cut down on tuberculosis among South African gold miners has failed to prevent infections or deaths, said a study out Wednesday.
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- Health Care
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Launch Of the Africa Health Forum
Groupe Jeune Afrique and the African Development Bank announce the launch of the AFRICA HEALTH FORUM, the first international forum focusing on the health economy in Africa, which will take place in Geneva on 16 and 17 May 2014.
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- Health Care
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Business Scales Up Action to Combat Global Malnutrition
Announced today at the World Economic Forum in Davos, forty global companies have now joined together to take global action against malnutrition.
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- Education, Health Care
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- nutrition
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Janssen announces new group targeting unmet global health needs
“To solve today’s greatest public health challenges, it’s essential that we emphasize the needs of the developing world in equal measure to those of the developed world,” said Paul Stoffels, M.D., Chief Scientific Officer, Johnson & Johnson and Worldwide Chairman of Janssen.
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- Education, Health Care
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- research
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To Achieve Good Health We Need Good Education
Maternal deaths have fallen from 540,000 a year in 1990 to 287,000 in 2010, and the momentum is there for to save even more lives of mothers and their precious infants.
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- Education, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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mHealth Alliance to move head office to South Africa
The move is to scale up mHealth projects at country levels in the global South.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Gates Foundation forms new health partnerships in South Africa
THE Medical Research Council (MRC) and the University of Cape Town (UCT) on Tuesday announced two new partnerships with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation aimed at finding new tools to fight HIV, tuberculosis (TB) and malaria.
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- Health Care
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