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Bi-Weekly Checkup (3/15/13): The (un)surprising secret to good health
Nutrition is key to global health. That’s why we’re partnering with Ashoka Changemakers next week as their Nutrients for All campaign turns its attention to nutrients’ effect on health. Learn more about our upcoming coverage (and check out some of the diverse topics we’ve discussed over the past two weeks) in the Bi-Weekly Checkup.
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Philips highlights unmet healthcare needs of African women
Royal Philips Electronics released its Fabric of Africa Trends Report on healthcare services across Africa, focusing specifically on Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs), maternal and child health and the strengthening of healthcare systems.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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The BoP Needs Drugs: Can the HealthStore Foundation’s model deliver?
In BoP countries, 70 to 90 percent of all childhood illness and death is caused by infectious diseases that can be treated with inexpensive drugs. But getting those drugs into the hands of patients is a daunting challenge. The HealthStore Foundation may have found a solution, through a micro-franchising model that has established a network of pharmacies and clinics in Kenya. Greg Starbird, the organization’s CEO, discusses the model and its challenges and successes.
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South Africa Moves to Revitalize Nursing
Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi has unveiled a national strategic plan aimed at rebuilding and revitalising the nursing profession in South Africa.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Global Burden of Disease Estimates: Secret Recipes or Spoiled Ingredients?
Although counting the sick and dead in a country can seem quite dull if not morbid, these facts are critical inputs to designing any national health policy, let alone global priorities in health. Yet 85% of the world’s population still lack systems that register births and deaths along with high-quality data on causes of death.
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Interview with Impact Investment Shujog and Impact Investment Exchange (IIX)
Robert Kraybill, Managing Director at IIX, and Magnus Young, Research Manager at Shujog, join us today to share their insights on the work they do at Shujog and IIX. They also provide their analyses on the trends in the impact investing space.
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- South Asia
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Innovation Forward and Backward: BRAC adapts its microcredit model to water, sanitation and hygiene
Innovators often focus on things that are radically new, when it’s sometimes preferable to adapt proven concepts to new spaces. BRAC has long been helping people in BoP communities form village organizations to obtain microcredit. Now it has applied this model to the problems of water, sanitation and hygiene through the WASH program. Babar Kabir, senior director of the program, explains its approach.
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World Allergy Week 2013 Will Focus on the Rising Global Health Problem of Food Allergy: Heaviest Burden is on Children
The World Allergy Organization (WAO) will host its annual World Allergy Week from 8-14 April, 2013, together with its 93 national Member Societies, to address the topic of “Food Allergy – A Rising Global Health Problem,” and its growing burden on children.
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