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The Novartis Decision: Is the Big Win for Indian Pharma Bad News for Investment?
In a decisive victory for India’s pharmaceutical industry, India’s Supreme Court rejected Novartis’ patent application for the cancer drug Glivec on Monday.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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- public health
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Kenya: Faith Healers Key to Fighting Mental Disorders
Traditional and faith healers are among informal players that are expected to aid the health sector in bridging the human resource gap in mental health service delivery.
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- Health Care
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- public health
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Reaching The Final 20: Investing in infrastructure to improve health care delivery
One of the harsh realities of global health today is that the quality and supply of life-saving innovations exceeds the capacity of many health systems to deliver them. For many low-income countries, gaps in the underlying infrastructure prevent new innovations from reaching those who need them most. VillageReach is a non-profit that helps private enterprise develop health care-related infrastructure, so that innovations can reach the "Final 20" - the 20 percent who live in the most remote, rural areas.
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- Health Care
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Is the ‘glass half-empty’ drowning our efforts in Global Health?
In the 18 months since the 2011 UN High Level Meeting (HLM) on Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs), increasing discussion has surrounded this vast and growing epidemiological burden.
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- Health Care
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- public health
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Kenya: Major Price Cut for Rapid TB Test
The cost of a highly accurate, rapid diagnostic test for tuberculosis (TB) has been reduced by 40 percent under a new agreement between the US government, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and the health financing mechanism, UNITAID.
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- Health Care
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- public health
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Announcing the Winners of the NextBillion Case Writing Competition
How BTPN Bank in Indonesia continues to service low-income borrowers is the subject of the winning case in the NextBillion’s Case Writing Contest. The case, “BTPN: Banking for the Bottom of the Pyramid in Indonesia,” was written by a team from University of Virginia’s McIntire School of Commerce in Charlottesville.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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Rethinking TB vaccines
As researchers consider who might benefit most from the next wave of tuberculosis (TB) vaccines, some argue that we're not doing enough with the vaccine we already have.
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- Health Care
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- public health
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Africa: HIV/Aids – New Investment in Point-of-Care Evaluation
International medicines financing mechanism UNITAID will invest more than US$140 million to evaluate point-of-care HIV diagnostic and monitoring technology in seven African countries.
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- Health Care, Impact Assessment