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The Next Frontier: Transforming Healthcare in Africa
Strategic public-private partnerships are going beyond traditional philanthropy to solve Africa's health challenges and promote development.
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- Education, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Getting Back to the ‘Heyday’ for Vaccines: PATH’s Batson on how ‘really smart innovations’ are bending the global health curve
Foundations and governments involved in global health are more sensitive to cost-per-solution these days. That puts an emphasis on creativity and a disciplined public-private approach going forward.
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- Health Care
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Startup Spotlight : Specialty Telehealth Services
Specialty Telehealth Services (STS) integrates complex telehealth systems to produce positive health impacts. STS owns and operates a 24-hour Response Center providing teletrauma services and is also implementing a Latin American Telestroke Network.
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- Health Care
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The Doctor is (Checking) In … Via Mobile: Pesinet combines apps, mircoinsruance with old-fashioned grassroots education
In Mali and Burkina Faso, an NGO uses a three-prong approach designed to get families to bring their children to local health centers starting with the earliest symptoms.
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- Environment, Health Care, Technology
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GSK bets on emerging markets with $1 billion plan to raise stake in India unit
GlaxoSmithKline Plc (GSK) has decided to spend roughly $1 billion to raise its stake in its Indian pharmaceutical unit, betting on rising demand in emerging markets as sales in developed economies slow due to a wave of patent expirations.
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- Health Care
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Give every health worker in Africa a bike
When we first met health workers like Kaemba, they told us that when they didn't have a bike -- which was most of the time -- or, when they have a bike and that it had broken down -- almost always -- they couldn't do the job they had been trained for.
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They Shot For Zero, But Couldn’t Squash Polio In 2013
This year was on track for a record-low number of polio cases. But polio pushed back hard. It reappeared in some places and spiked in others. Still, global health officials remain confident that polio can be defeated soon.
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- Health Care
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Health sector needs a paradigm shift to escape morass
Kenyans mourn for the people who have died in senseless road accidents even as the country celebrates its Golden Jubilee. It is regrettable that a country that was born out of bloodshed in the fight for independence should witness more deaths in hospitals due to the ongoing health workers’ strike.
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- Health Care
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