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Providing remote medical care in inaccessible areas
Future of Indian medicare is Telemedicine, opined experts in the field, which is evolving into a promising technological intervention to provide quick and super-specialty medical care to even people residing in a remote place.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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Liberia: Ellen Launches Reports On Women’s Health, World Malaria 2012
President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf has called on all health partners to identify ways in which, working together, Africa can continue to ensure that the progress made is maintained and enhanced regarding women's health and in combating malaria in the African region.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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From Darth Vader to Social Innovator: SalaUno’s formula for success
With influences ranging from Aravind Eye Care to low-cost airlines, SalaUno has established itself as one of the most innovative social enterprises in Latin America. Specializing in low-cost cataract surgery and other vision care, it achieved profitability within two months of opening, and its founders have been hailed as some of the region’s top entrepreneurs. In this interview, SalaUno co-founder Javier Okhuysen explains how they did it.
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- Health Care, Social Enterprise
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- public health
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Drug-Resistant Malaria Flares As Funding For Research Tapers
Global health experts worry that a new breed of malaria that has arisen in South Asia could reverse trends in the fight against the disease, since it has proven resistant to the drugs usually used to treat malaria infections.
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Prices double as private vaccines flood market
NEW DELHI: The Universal Immunisation Programme (UIP) seems to have slipped almost entirely into the grip of the private sector as the government's vaccine institutes that were reopened in February 2010 after being shut down two years ago are yet to contribute in any significant way. In the process, the cost of most vaccines has more than doubled since 2006-07.
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Lok Capital buys minority stake in social enterprise Drishti
Firm will use funds to service underserved geographies of Karnataka
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- Health Care, Investing
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Unique Opportunity for Social Entrepreneurs with Scalable Ideas: GSBI seeking health and off-grid energy applicants for 2013
The Global Social Benefit Incubator (GSBI) run by Santa Clara University celebrated its 10th anniversary last year. Of the 160 alumni, more than 50 percent are still scaling—a track record any venture capitalist would envy—and these social enterprises have provided services to more than 70 million beneficiaries. The deadline for this year’s GSBI is coming up fast: applications must be filed online by Jan. 11.
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Disease burden links ecology to economic growth
A NEW study in the open access journal PLOS Biology, finds that vector-borne and parasitic diseases have substantial effects on economic development across the globe, and are major drivers of differences in income between tropical and temperate countries.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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