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Public health leaders promote new framework for development
Countries should consider expanding investments through organizations that are already engaged in global dialogue and investment approaches.
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- Education, Health Care
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- governance
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Child marriage seen as a girl’s health issue
The development community is starting to pay closer attention to the problem of child marriages.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Portable telemedicine device for medics
A robust portable device for monitoring vital signs and providing communications for medics developed with the support of ESA offers a lifeline even in the remotest areas on Earth via satcoms.
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WHO guidance ‘risks killing children’
Rapid fluid resuscitation of children in shock can cause death, a major trial showed in 2011, but the World Health Organisation has yet to update its advice to doctors, say scientists, warning thousands could be harmed
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Designed to Arrive Early: How we can save the lives of millions of children
To save children’s lives in the world’s poorest communities, we need to break free from the current reactive model for healthcare delivery. We need to reach our patients earlier.
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- Education, Health Care
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- public health
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Light-Bulb Moments for a Nonprofit
No baby should die or be disabled because a light bulb can’t be replaced. Yet during visits to hospitals in India and other countries, Krista Donaldson often saw lifesaving phototherapy systems, used to treat infant jaundice, languishing in dusty corners because of burned-out bulbs and other seemingly simple problems.
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Successful maternal health partnership seeking scale
A year after former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton launched “Saving Mothers, Giving Life,” U.S. and African health leaders believe the inter-agency public-private partnership has proven that surgical and other interventions once thought to be too difficult and expensive can dramatically reduce maternal and infant death in high-mortality settings.
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India polio-free for third straight year
India has a reason to smile. On Monday, it completes three years without reporting any case of polio.
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