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Kenya’s Mothers Shun Free Maternity Health Care
It has been a month since the Kenyan government waived the maternity fee at public health facilities, but Millicent Awino is still one of the many expectant mothers in favour of a home birth.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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PEPFAR: Millions treated, but better info management needed
Over the past decade, the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief has saved millions of lives, but a watchdog claims it could help even more if information were managed better.
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- Health Care, Impact Assessment
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Tanzania’s Mwanzo Bora: Promoting “good starts” in community agriculture and nutrition
In Tanzania, 53 percent of pregnant women are anemic, and 35 percent of children under three are stunted - both evidence of severe malnutrition. Africare’s Mwanzo Bora project (the name means “good start” in Kiswahili) integrates agriculture and nutrition to address a host of malnutrition issues in women and children in rural Tanzania, focusing on the first 1,000 days of children’s lives.
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- Health Care
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- nutrition, public health
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Innovative finance can boost global health R&D
Whatever the exact numbers, few would dispute that only a small fraction of health R&D funding targets conditions in poor countries that account for most of the global disease burden.
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- Health Care
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One man’s innovation turns Ugandan hospitals hi-tech
Have you ever wanted to know how many doctor visits you make per year or what your annual expenditure on health care is?
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- Health Care
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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mHealth for Chronic Diseases in Developing Countries
Non communicable diseases (heart diseases, strokes, cancers, diabetes, and chronic lung disease) cause an estimated 36 million deaths every year, including 9 million people dying prematurely before the age of 60.
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- Health Care
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Innovating to improve the health of women and children: T-HOPE researches innovative delivery models in maternal and child health
Every year, almost 300,000 mothers and 7.6 million children under the age of five die from largely preventable causes - the vast majority at the BoP. The Toronto Health Organization Performance Evaluation, in collaboration with CHMI, researched innovative solutions to maternal and child health care, presenting them at the recent Private Sector in Health symposium in Sydney, Australia.
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- Education, Health Care
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- public health, research
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Indian drug makers shifting R&D operations to South East Asia: Survey
AHMEDABAD: Red tapism is pushing India's Rs 1,00,000 crore pharmaceutical industry in peril as most of the pharma companies shifting research and development (R&D) operations and clinical trials to South-East Asian countries of Cambodia, Korea, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam and others, according to a just concluded survey by ASSOCHAM.
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- Health Care
- Region
- South Asia
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