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Needed: Boring Health Care Solutions: Does global health have an unhealthy fixation on innovation? (Bi-Weekly Checkup, 8/3/13)
Does global health have a decidedly unhealthy fixation on innovation? Is there too much focus on flashy technological solutions to persistent health problems, and not enough on the slow, “boring” approaches that often bring more lasting results? We discuss the issue in NextBillion Health Care’s Bi-Weekly Checkup.
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- Health Care, Technology
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Malaria resurgence in Africa has health authorities scrambling for new weapons
Could the much-maligned DDT become the new pesticide of choice?
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- Health Care
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Open development and social impact bonds: rethinking healthcare delivery
By incentivising investment through payment on results, and by making information open, local entrepreneurs can fill the gaps and help deliver much needed services
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- Health Care, Impact Assessment
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- impact bonds
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Avon, Amway … Africa?: Can the direct sales agent model work for health goods at the BoP? Part 2
Direct sales agent models are generating a lot of buzz in BoP health care. By recruiting local sales teams to sell health products directly to their communities, social enterprises hope to improve health, provide an income for the salespeople – and make a profit. But can they overcome the challenges of working at the BoP? The SHOPS project studied several approaches in Africa, and lead researcher Michael Kubzansky discusses what works – and what doesn’t – in part 2 of our Q&A.
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- Education, Health Care, Social Enterprise
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- public health, research
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The Airborne Infection That Beats Antibiotics: North Korea’s Other Crisis
Throughout history, TB has killed more people than all other pandemics combined.
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- Health Care
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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Can collaboration resuscitate global health funding?
As support for global health projects declines, governments, NGOs and the private sector will have to be creative and commit to collaboration
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- Health Care
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- governance, lending
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Colombia is world’s first country to wipe out river blindness – WHO
Colombia has become the first country in the world to eradicate river blindness through the distribution of an anti-parasitic drug in affected parts of the South American nation and a sustained health education campaign in local communities, the World Health Organization (WHO) has said.
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- Health Care
- Region
- Latin America
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Breast-feeding woes: Mexico sees dramatic drop of moms nursing, raising concerns over health
Despite the well-known advantages to breast milk and vigorous campaigns around the world championing breast as best, Mexican mothers say the bottle is better.
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- Health Care
- Region
- Latin America
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