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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
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Clever Packaging: Essential Medicine Rides Coke’s Distribution Into Remote Villages
Simon Berry is piggybacking on Coca-Cola’s distribution system to bring life-saving medicine to the places that need it most.
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- Health Care
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- public health
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Bi-Weekly Checkup (3/29/13): A conversation about everything
Has this ever happened to you? You’re talking about an important global problem – let’s say it’s poor nutrition – with a group of colleagues. You’re focusing on a specific issue – for example, the best way to promote healthy eating in BoP communities. But soon the conversation starts to expand - as soon as you address one problem, another one arises...
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- Health Care, Impact Assessment
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- nutrition, public health
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Accurate TB tests needed in the private sector
More affordable tests should be introduced in the private sector as 70% of Indians seek private medical care for TB.
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- Health Care
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At NCIIA’s Open Conference, a Shift Toward Responsible Startups: Student, faculty teams are increasingly addressing poverty
Since 1995 NCIIA has been supporting efforts of students and faculty to invent, innovate and create impact with breakthrough technologies Open Minds Conferences is one of the key conferences on technology entrepreneurship in higher education. More recently, NCIIA’s support of E-Teams has shifted significantly toward projects whose primary focus is on addressing poverty.
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- Education, Energy, Health Care
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- research
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The Quest for Integrated Health Care: The RHIN project’s model for rural health integration
Integration has become a global trend in health care reform, and for good reason. Many BoP and middle-income health systems struggle with problems like service delivery duplication, low continuity of care and patient dissatisfaction. Integration of services at every stage of health promotion could address these issues. In Namibia, Geneva Global’s Rural Health Integrated Network project seeks to create a strategy for health systems integration that could provide a model for global practice.
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- Health Care
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- public health
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