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Process, Not Product: How lessons from India can transform health care across borders
Partnership aims to increase access to health care worldwide by identifying and spreading the word about promising innovations. Next up, a study tour of four forward-thinking firms in India.
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GAVI’s David Ferreira: Private sector to boost vaccine supply-chain effectiveness
At this year’s Clinton Global Initiative, the GAVI Alliance announced a pair of new intiatives that aim to leverage private sector funds and expertise to improve delivery of vaccines worldwide.
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Comprehensive and Successful Healthcare: Innovations from Brazil
For over twenty years Saúde Criança -- "Child Health" in English -- has helped thousands of poor families, mostly female-headed households, cope with chronic health problems that affect their children. It does so through fostering partnerships with public hospitals and implementing a co-responsibility scheme with families whose children suffer major health issues such as cancer, brain tumors, or chronic respiratory problems.
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NexThought Monday – Stories Without Borders: And one way to start telling them
In 2006, blogging was radical. But Doctors Without Borders tried it anyway, and field blogs help put a human face on the organization while allowing readers a glimpse into a world that was otherwise unknown to them.
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Sucre Blue sets up affordable, community health care in India
Erin Little’s inspiration to establish India’s Sucre Blue stemmed from the problems she encountered with a Type 1 diabetes diagnosis during her childhood. “It was getting to a point where it was really, really hard to take care of myself,” Little told MSNBC about her health insurance costs.
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World leaders set to tackle global healthcare challenges at World Innovation Summit for Health
The most pressing global healthcare challenges are to be tackled as the world’s leading medical, academic and government professionals gather at the inaugural World Innovation Summit for Health (WISH) in Doha, Qatar on 10-11 December 2013.
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GAVI Alliance to address the next vaccine challenge: Supply chains
No one likes it when a delivery fails to show, but when it happens with vaccines it costs lives. Currently, millions of children go unimmunized each year because of delivery problems, including anything from vaccine supply chain breaks and ineffective cold chain equipment to poor vaccine stock management in developing countries. Shockingly, these kinds of issues account for a substantial number of the children who miss out on their shots. That has got to change. These supply chain inefficiencies may be contributing to the deaths of 1.5 million children each year from vaccine-preventable diseases, the vast majority in developing countries.
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Firm bets on telemedicine to reach needy patients
Access to healthcare has been a challenge to many Kenyans, particularly those in remote areas which do not attract specialized doctors. To help solve this problem, Dr Emily Obwaka, a medic, has made advocating for the use of telemedicine in both public and private hospitals her mission.
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