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Environment, education and health need urgent progress, says MDG report
Sub-Saharan Africa and southern Asia lag behind rest of world, with targets on child and maternal deaths, and sanitation significantly off-target
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- Education, Health Care
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Is Africa Profiting from Counterfeit Drugs?
…penalties too low to stop crime
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- Health Care
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Opinion: An AIDS-free generation is within sight
We've come a long way since my early days as the associate medical director of the AIDS clinic at San Francisco General Hospital in the 1980s and 1990s.By 1990, I had seen over 500 patients die from a disease that we just couldn't treat. As an infectious disease doctor, I was overcome not only by the tragic loss of life, but also by the inability to find the "magic bullet" to help prevent these deaths.
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- Health Care
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Comment: The Middle East plague goes global
A scary virus is sweeping Saudi Arabia. Six million religious pilgrims are about to descend on the country from across the world. The result could be disastrous, write Laurie Garrett and Maxine Builder.
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- Health Care
- Region
- North Africa & Near East
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No Fortune at the BoP?: Economist Paul Clyde on the challenges of health care delivery in emerging markets – Part 2
Paul Clyde is an itinerant economic adviser and a faculty member at the University of Michigan. He has advised or run over 40 projects in 10 emerging markets, helping develop financially sustainable health care delivery models. In part 2 of this Q&A, he discusses the primary challenges BoP countries face in health care delivery, and how their health systems’ evolution could reshape their economies.
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- Health Care, Social Enterprise
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Great Potential in China’s Medical Device Market
Though the United States and Europe both greatly surpass China's healthcare, China is expected to catch up to Europe by 2020.
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- Health Care
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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Hypertension-Driven Disease Rapidly Rising In Sub-Saharan Africa
Weill Cornell study suggests urbanization and industrialization, coupled with a possible predisposition to hypertensive diseases, may be responsible.
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- Health Care
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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No Fortune at the BoP?: Globe-trotting economist Paul Clyde on the promise (and limitations) of health care delivery models that serve the poor – Part 1
Paul Clyde is an itinerant economic adviser and faculty member at the University of Michigan. He has advised or run over 40 projects in 10 emerging markets, helping develop financially sustainable health care delivery models. In part 1 of this Q&A, he talks about the BoP health care sector’s evolution, and gives a frank assessment of existing business models.
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- Environment, Health Care, Social Enterprise
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- public health
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