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The Promise of eHealth in the African Region
Most African patients making repeat visits to a hospital or to their doctor are likely to have had at least one similar experience: they routinely see their doctor or other hospital staff digging through stacks of ancient manila files in search of handwritten notes of their medical records. The patients will even be lucky if their files are found with complete information. Must this decades-old practice continue in this information age? “No”, says Dr Derege Kebede, head of the African Health Observatory (AHO) and Knowledge Management Unit at the WHO Regional Office for Africa Office (WHO/AFRO) in Brazzaville, Congo. “A solution already exists: electronic health or eHealth – countries and people in our region should embrace, promote and intensify the use of eHealth.”
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- Health Care, Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Applying BoP Health Care Solutions In the Developed World: A Q&A with Gina Lagomarsino, director of R4D and panelist at the 2013 BoP Summit – Part 2
Rising health care costs are an urgent problem around the world. But can the ultra affordable health care models being developed at the BoP work in wealthier countries? In Part 2 of our Q&A (a preview of the health care plenary at next month’s BoP Summit) Results for Development director Gina Lagomarsino discusses this and other issues that are shaping global health.
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- Health Care
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Mortality rate in Latin America and Caribbean drops
With the exception of young men, most people in Latin America and the Caribbean are living much longer today than 40 years ago. The mortality rate has dropped by at least 80 percent for children 4 years old or younger and by more than 50 percent for women between the ages of 20 and 44. For men between the ages of 15 and 19, however, the mortality rate has increased by 1 percent, largely due to deaths from road injuries and rising violence.
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- Health Care
- Region
- Latin America
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Impact Investment Exchange Asia invests in Indian Social Enterprise Spring Health
Singapore based Impact Investment Exchange Asia (IIX) has announced today that its Impact Partners platform has successfully facilitated an investment from two private investors, alongside lead investors from the Artha initiative and the Stone Family Foundation, into Spring Health Water (India) Pte. Ltd., a for-profit Social Enterprise that provides safe and affordable drinking water to rural customers in India.
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- Health Care
- Region
- South Asia
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India’s government hails interventions for reducing maternal deaths
According to the Indian minister of health and family welfare, "various interventions" spearheaded by the country's government have contributed to a successful reduction in maternal mortality over the last 12 years.
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- Health Care
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- public health
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ADB, Gates Foundation Partner for Sanitation Innovation in Asia
As the world’s most populous region continues to grow, innovative solutions to sanitation are more needed than even before in Asia, where many governments still don’t see this Millennium Development Goal as a priority.
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- Health Care
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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What’s Working – and What’s Not – in Global Health: A Q&A with Gina Lagomarsino, director of R4D and panelist at the 2013 BoP Summit – Part 1
BoP countries are increasingly embracing the private health care sector and using public financing to support better development of the market. In this Q&A (a preview of the health care plenary at next month’s BoP Summit) Results for Development director Gina Lagomarsino discusses this and other developments on the global health landscape.
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- Health Care
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- governance, public health
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Matt Damon Tries to Get Clean Water and Toilets for India’s Poor
Matt Damon finds it a challenge to get people to care about water. It’s why he was in India from Aug. 23 to 26 on a four-day tour. Not to promote his latest film Elysium, a sci-fi dystopia with a socialist underpinning, but to help the rural and urban poor in India get access to clean water and sanitation by investing in tube wells, hand pumps and toilets with proper drainage facilities.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
- Region
- South Asia
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- microfinance