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Zambia slowly winning HIV/AIDS fight
In Southern Africa, Zambia has one of the world’s most devastating HIV and AIDS pandemic. In 2009, nearly 76,000 adults were newly infected with HIV, representing about 200 new infections each day.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Product Development Partnerships Applaud Japan’s First Public-Private Partnership to Spearhead Innovation in Global Health
As Product Development Partnerships (PDPs) dedicated to the discovery, development and delivery of new global health tools, we applaud the official launch of the Global Health Innovation and Technology Fund (GHIT Fund), which was announced today in Tokyo, Japan.
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- Asia Pacific
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A Turbulent Transition: Afghanistan’s private health care sector emerges
When Afghanistan is in the news, it’s not generally because of health care. But alongside the country’s political turmoil, its health care system has been undergoing a transformation of its own. Departing from its long-standing distrust of for-profit health care, the Afghan government is now seeking to engage with the private sector. CHMI’s Rose Reis interviews Dr. Omarzaman Sayedi of Futures Group about the country’s transition to a free-market health system.
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Donors likely to cut down on HIV and Aids funds
Uncertainty looms over the future of donor funding of the fight against HIV and Aids, malaria, and tuberculosis.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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10 Impactful Innovations in Health Care
When the Cleveland Clinic speaks, people listen. And, well, they should.
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Want Healthier Food? Pay Farmers to Manage Nutrient Flows: The movement toward “ecosystem services” compensation
Farmers have traditionally made their money by producing food. But the growing awareness of the relationship between healthy ecosystems and healthy foods is leading some to consider other forms of compensation. Farmers may be paid to control water flow or sequester carbon dioxide on their property, for example. As part of their Nutrients for All campaign, Ashoka Changemakers explores some of these emerging compensation approaches.
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- Agriculture, Environment, Health Care
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- nutrition, public health
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HIV Self-Testing: The Key To Controlling The Global Epidemic
A new international study has confirmed that self-testing for HIV is effective and could be the answer to controlling the global epidemic.
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