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Bi-Weekly Checkup – 3/1/13: What you may have missed and what we’re working on at NB Health Care
We’re launching a new regular feature at NextBillion Health Care – the Bi-Weekly Checkup. (Sorry for the obligatory medical pun – hey, it’s a health care blog…)
The Checkup has three main functions:
To highlight recent posts and news items that you might have missed, to explore new ideas, organizations and trends in global health and health-related social enterprise and to let you know about upcoming content on NBHC.- Categories
- Agriculture, Health Care, Social Enterprise
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India Bends Curve on Child Health
India is making positive strides in reducing child mortality through new policies and ambitious programs, but preventing the deaths of millions of children remains one of the country’s greatest challenges.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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- public health
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GlaxoSmithKline unit joins patent pool for AIDS drugs
GlaxoSmithKline's HIV/AIDS drugs business is to share intellectual property rights on children's medicine in a patent pool designed to make treatments more widely available in poor countries.
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- Health Care
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- public health
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Stories from the Field: Gates Foundation CEO Jeff Raikes discusses polio, vaccines and family planning in Nigeria and Kenya
Late last year, Gates Foundation CEO Jeff Raikes traveled to Nigeria and Kenya with his wife and a team of colleagues. Raikes discusses his experiences in the field, reporting on progress in the fight to end polio and increase access to family planning, challenges in the cold storage of vaccines, and perspectives from residents of Nairobi’s slums on topics like child health, contraception and HIV.
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- Health Care
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- public health
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U.S. Cuts to Global Health Budget “Mass-scale Malpractice”
Public health workers, activists and policymakers are stepping up a last-minute campaign to highlight the global health impact of historic, sweeping cuts to the U.S. federal budget due to go into effect Friday if Congress doesn’t act.
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- Health Care
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- public health
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What the NHS can learn from innovative healthcare practices abroad
From clinical services to specialised care, there are many models of affordable healthcare.
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- Health Care
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- Europe & Eurasia
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- public health
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The Other NCDs: What’s being done about the global mental health crisis?
Mental illnesses receive far less attention and funding than other non-communicable diseases (NCDs) like diabetes, heart disease and cancer. Yet mental, neurological and substance-abuse disorders already constitute a larger share of the global disease burden than both cancer and heart disease. And major depressive disorder alone will be the number one cause of disability globally by 2030. How is the social sector responding to this crisis?
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- Health Care
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Rwanda’s Historic Health Recovery: What the U.S. Might Learn
Over the last decade in Rwanda, deaths from HIV, TB, and malaria dropped by 80 percent, maternal mortality dropped by 60 percent, life expectancy doubled -- all at an average health care cost of $55 per person per year.
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- Health Care
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- public health