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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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- 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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One man’s innovation turns Ugandan hospitals hi-tech
Have you ever wanted to know how many doctor visits you make per year or what your annual expenditure on health care is?
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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mHealth for Chronic Diseases in Developing Countries
Non communicable diseases (heart diseases, strokes, cancers, diabetes, and chronic lung disease) cause an estimated 36 million deaths every year, including 9 million people dying prematurely before the age of 60.
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Innovating to improve the health of women and children: T-HOPE researches innovative delivery models in maternal and child health
Every year, almost 300,000 mothers and 7.6 million children under the age of five die from largely preventable causes - the vast majority at the BoP. The Toronto Health Organization Performance Evaluation, in collaboration with CHMI, researched innovative solutions to maternal and child health care, presenting them at the recent Private Sector in Health symposium in Sydney, Australia.
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- Education, Health Care
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- public health, research
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Indian drug makers shifting R&D operations to South East Asia: Survey
AHMEDABAD: Red tapism is pushing India's Rs 1,00,000 crore pharmaceutical industry in peril as most of the pharma companies shifting research and development (R&D) operations and clinical trials to South-East Asian countries of Cambodia, Korea, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam and others, according to a just concluded survey by ASSOCHAM.
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- South Asia
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Changing the perspective: from disease control to healthy people
Never before has the health situation improved so fast across the world. At the same time, exposures to major health risks rise just as quickly and dramatically.
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Understanding the Protective Side of Dengue Virus
Infection with one strain of the dengue virus gives people protection against the other three strains for about two years, a new biostatistics study has found.
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- Health Care
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