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Healthcare innovations can revolutionise maternal and infant health
Despite the amazing advances made by our nation since independence, one area where we continue to be woefully inadequate is basic health parameters, particularly maternal and infant health.
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- Health Care
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World Bank, Global Fund, Partner to Expand Results-Based Financing for Maternal and Child Health
Specifically, this partnership will identify opportunities to enable the inclusion of HIV/AIDS, malaria and TB services in RBF projects funded by these organizations
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- Health Care
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Global Malaria Deaths Hit A New Low
The death rate from malaria dropped by 45 percent globally between 2000 and 2012, the World Health Organization reported Wednesday. In Africa, the rate fell by almost half.
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- Health Care
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Maternal health program in India failing to deliver
A prominent program that claims to reduce infant and maternal deaths in rural India by encouraging mothers to deliver in private hospitals has been unsuccessful, despite the investment of more than $25 million since 2005, a new Duke University study finds.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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‘Vanity is Not Monopolized By the Rich’: VisionSpring’s innovative way to sell eyeglasses proving to be sustainable; a Q&A with COO Peter Eliassen
Through a hub-and-spoke business model, middle-income customers are subsidizing company’s work with BoP consumers. And it’s proving to be sustainable.
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- Environment, Health Care, Social Enterprise
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- supply chains
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Global Fund: Quash Human Rights Barriers
In honor of International Human Rights Day, the Global Fund made an appeal to break down all human rights barriers to health, a critical factor in the goal of defeating AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.
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MSF Calls for Scale-Up of “Viral Load” Monitoring to Improve HIV Treatment in Developing Countries
Global Fund and US-gov’t PEPFAR program must use purchasing power to get better prices for viral load tests.
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- Health Care
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Global resistance to TB drugs is ‘ticking time bomb’
Increasing resistance to tuberculosis drugs around the world is a "ticking time bomb", says the World Health Organization (WHO).
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- Health Care
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