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Better Design, Better Health: Bringing Telemedicine to Rural India
Twenty-six year-old Rinku has been bleeding for days. So she did what many village women in rural India do when health problems reach a certain level of severity; she made the multi-hour trip to a private hospital for high-quality, if expensive, healthcare.
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Healthcare Initiative to Train 1 Million Health Workers for Rural Africa
Across sub-Saharan Africa, community health workers using mobile phones and broadband access to sophisticated medical resources are delivering health care to where it is most needed, among the rural poor. A new campaign aims to greatly expand that effort by training, equipping and deploying one million health care workers by the end of 2015, reaching millions of underserved people.At the World Economic Forum today, Rwanda President Paul Kagame and Novartis CEO Joseph Jimenez joined Earth Institute Director Jeffrey Sachs in announcing the campaign, which will be overseen by a steering committee at the Earth Institute and will be run through the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network (www.undsdsn.org) as part of its Solutions Initiative.
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Part 1: What Really Happens at a BoP Clinic?: A new study shows surprising results
Jishnu Das, Senior Economist in the Development Research Group at The World Bank, recently co-authored a Health Affairs study on quality of primary care in India. In Part 1 of a two-part interview, Rose Reis of CHMI asks Das about the study’s unique methods and disturbing findings.
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- Education, Health Care
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Billionaire Horse Breeder’s Polio Shot to Undercut Glaxo
Indian billionaire Cyrus Poonawalla, founder of the world’s biggest maker of vaccines, will slash the price of polio immunization and introduce shots for diarrhea and pneumonia, undercutting Pfizer Inc. and GlaxoSmithKline.
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U.S. Budget Battle Preview: How it May Affect Foreign Aid
Four scenarios of how things might unfold over the next two months, and their respective impact on the U.S. International Affairs Budget
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Mobile health: donors should follow, not lead
No more preempting local demand with substandard products, the mHealth sector needs donors willing to learn from local actors and invest in sustainable business models.
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Ugandan HIV campaign targets “cheaters”
A new Ugandan HIV-prevention campaign that frankly addresses sexual infidelity is generating heated debate over the direction the country's HIV strategy should take.
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- Health Care
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Africa: Global Fund Executive Director Calls for Focused Action to Fight Infectious Disease
Mark Dybul, Executive Director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria said today that concentrated action will achieve significantly greater impact on infectious diseases that threaten maternal and child health.
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- Health Care
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