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A Cure for Baldness – But Not Malaria?: Attracting Businesses to Global Health R&D
The business of global health R&D isn’t working. Companies are seeking profitable treatments for relatively minor health problems, while largely ignoring major global diseases. But innovative new funding models are combining profit motives with an integrated social cause. Can they change the face of global health R&D?
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- Education, Health Care, Technology
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The Need to Scale: Social Enterprises and Community Health
“Community health workers: Now that is a profession that must be compensated.”
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- Health Care
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- scale
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Coke is Everywhere: Why Aren’t Medicines?
Why does Coca-Cola find its way to the remotest parts of the world, but essential medicines remain out of reach for many? With colleagues at INSEAD, we set out to decipher this question, hoping to find answers that could help make this debate more constructive. We met several people, interviewed both medicine and Coca-Cola supply chain experts, and talked to some social entrepreneurs.
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- Health Care
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Saving Tanzania’s Poorest Children
DAR ES SALAAM, Dec 13 2012 (IPS) - Half asleep, Anuary lies exhausted on his bed in Amana Hospital in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania’s capital. His mother, Mariam Saidi, sits on the edge of his mattress, staring blankly out of the window. Every now and then, she turns to wipe her 18-month-old son’s forehead.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- public health
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Suspended Between Life and Death: LifeWraps Fights Obstetric Hemorrhaging
Obstetric hemorrhaging is the leading cause of maternal death worldwide; every four minutes a woman dies from unstoppable bleeding during delivery. But about half of those deaths could be prevented using a new, incredibly simple first aid device called a LifeWrap—picture a scuba-style wetsuit sliced into strips that Velcro around a woman’s lower body.
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- Health Care
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Ban joins Hispaniola effort against cholera
Ban Ki-moon has announced a new initiative that will support a 10-year effort against cholera in Haiti. This comes amid mounting calls for the United Nations to take responsibility over the spread of the disease in the country.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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- Latin America
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- public health
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Nigeria: Global Fund Happy With HIV, TB Treatment in Nigeria
The Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, on Tuesday expressed delight at the level of care and treatment given to persons infected with HIV and tuberculosis in Nigeria.
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- Health Care
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- public health
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