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Silk stabilizer could eliminate need to refrigerate vaccines
Researchers at Tufts University recently found that a new silk-based stabilizer could get rid of the need to refrigerate vaccines and antibiotics, potentially enhancing vaccine delivery and storage in developing nations.
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RSBY health insurance scheme launched in Arunachal
Itanagar, Dec 19 (PTI) The Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY), a health insurance scheme of the Centre for people living below poverty line was launched today in Arunachal Pradesh.
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- South Asia
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Insights On Intrapreneurship From A Google Hangout With Ashoka Changemakers: Watch last week’s session of industry insiders
Ashoka Changemakers broadcasted, via YouTube, a Google Hangout that brought industry insiders face to face with the two early-round prizewinning teams of Ashoka’s League of Intrapreneurs, a competition that rewards prominent intrapreneurs with media coverage and consulting support from Accenture Development Partnerships.
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Independent evaluation validates UNITAID’s approach
UNITAID has established itself as a pioneering innovative financing mechanism with a successful business model to improve product markets for HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis in developing countries, according to UNITAID’s first independent Five-Year Evaluation.
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- Health Care, Impact Assessment
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All About India: A Health Care Market in Transition (Part 1)
The Indian health care system is in a crucial phase of its development. The country has no shortage of challenges - but it also presents unique opportunities to social enterprises.
In Part 1 of our series on Indian health care, Zeena Johar identifies the major growth areas in the market, and discusses a potentially game-changing development that may be on the horizon.- Categories
- Health Care, Social Enterprise
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- public health
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Learning to Love Quacks: The Untapped Potential of Informal Health Care Providers
The lack of trained medical providers is a global crisis. But rather than simply recruiting and training new health care workers, the global health community could focus on improving the vibrant marketplace of informal providers who are already there.
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- Education, Health Care
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- research
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Maternal health gets a boost in Malawi
On a gray Wednesday morning in the Malawian capital of Lilonge, a group of young people perform a skit for philanthropist Melinda Gates who has come to visit their recreational centre, a drafty room with wooden, board walls and a corrugated iron roof that don't quite meet.
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Vaccine Rule Is Said to Hurt Health Efforts
A group of prominent doctors and public health experts warns in articles to be published Monday in the journal Pediatrics that banning thimerosal, a mercury compound used as a preservative in vaccines, would devastate public health efforts in developing countries.
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- Health Care
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