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Megatrends in Global Health Care
Powerful trends are at work — all around the world — forcing changes in how health care will be conceived and delivered in the decades ahead. The editors of HBR have compiled a list of 12 megatrends that will dramatically change how we must think about the issue and some of the largely unrecognized consequences.
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- Health Care
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Clinical trials and global health equity
What happens when people who previously did not have access are provided with the kind of health care that most of The Lancet’s readership takes for granted?
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- Health Care
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Global Fund signs $100 million grant agreement with Namibia
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria signed grant agreements on Tuesday with Namibia for $91.6 million to support the national response to HIV and $8.5 million for malaria programs.
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- Health Care
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Mental health needs realistic treatment – or we face decades of wasted time
NGOs can play a decisive role in ensuring that those with mental health problems aren't misdiagnosed, and receive treatment that takes cultural and educational barriers into account
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- Health Care
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- waste
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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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