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A Nano cool device to take vaccines to remote areas
One of the major challenges in rural healthcare programme is preserving vaccines in the right temperature, especially in power-deficient villages.
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- Energy, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Behind the Revolution of Diagnosis That Led to the HIV Miracle Baby…and More
"It's a revolution in diagnosis which is leading to a revolution in treatment," says Philippe Douste-Blazy of UNITAID.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- impact investing
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Success In mHealth: Shifting Focus from the ‘m’ to the ‘Health’
Many lament the slow pace at which formal mHealth innovations are mainstreamed, blaming a dearth of robust evidence and hesitant policy makers. Still, the pace of evidence is accelerating, and a possible future is not difficult to imagine.
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- Health Care
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Promising strategy to help vaccines outsmart HIV
Researchers have discovered a promising delivery method to help make an HIV vaccine effective prior to and even after the infection. The new finding at Oregon Health & Science University highlights an ingenious method to ensure the body effectively reacts when infected with the highly evasive HIV virus that causes AIDS.
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- Health Care
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- public health
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Four Innovative Models Changing Health Care In Africa
In Tanzania, giant pouched rats are trained to sniff out tuberculosis in human sputum samples. Dubbed HeroRATS, the animals can evaluate 40 samples in just seven minutes, equal to what a skilled lab technician can do in a full day. In northern Kenya, health services--including family planning services--are being brought to 36 remote, underserved communities by four-wheel drive vehicles, bicycles, camels and good old-fashioned human feet. And in Malawi, durable e-health hardware--even touch screen computers--that are significantly more robust in harsh environments with erratic power supplies are being manufactured by Malawians.
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Food prices squeezing poor people and driving social change by stealth
A new era of high and volatile food prices goes beyond affecting what people can afford to eat and is causing life-changing shifts in society, experts warn today.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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- nutrition
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Celebrity Breasts and Patented Genes: Why the test that may save Angelina Jolie’s life is too expensive for the BoP (Bi-Weekly Checkup – 5/24/13)
Angelina Jolie recently got a preventive double mastectomy, after a genetic test revealed her elevated risk of breast cancer. But breast cancer kills over 450,000 a year, mainly in developing countries. And the genetic test Jolie got costs over $3,000, because a company holds a patent on the genes themselves.
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- Education, Health Care
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- public health, research
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Investing in the Local Private Sector to Reduce Maternal Mortality in India
Through our work at Merck for Mothers – Merck’s 10-year, $500 million initiative to curb maternal mortality worldwide – my colleagues and I have met with people from countries across the developing world and seen first-hand the harsh realities many women face during childbirth. We are excited to be partnering with leading organizations to engage private providers and improve the affordability, accessibility, and quality of the maternal health services they offer.
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- Health Care