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Analysis: What Is the Argument Against Lifting COVID Vaccine Patents?
The world's major vaccine-producing countries are for the first time opening the door to the suspension of intellectual property rights for COVID-19 vaccines.
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- Coronavirus, Health Care
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- Global
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- vaccines
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Preparing Community Health Workers to Deploy the COVID-19 Vaccine: Five Lessons on Digital Training Learned From the Ebola Crisis
Though COVID-19 deaths continue to rise around the globe, growing access to vaccines provides a ray of hope. As Monica Amponsah, Bobbi Gray and Gigi Gatti at Grameen Foundation explain, community health workers can play a key role in bringing the vaccine to vulnerable communities in the developing world. They discuss the digital solutions Grameen Foundation developed to help community health workers support the Ebola vaccine trials in Sierra Leone, and share five lessons for leveraging mobile tools to help these workers deploy COVID-19 vaccinations.
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- Coronavirus, Health Care, Technology
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Analysis: 6 Ways Social Entrepreneurs Are Saving Lives During India’s COVID-19 Crisis
With India bearing witness to the second wave of COVID-19 and one of the most serious health crises of all times, the situation on the ground is grim.
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- Coronavirus, Health Care, Social Enterprise
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- Asia Pacific
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COVID-19 in India: Where Oxygen Concentrators Are Coming From
Various foreign governments and global private sector companies have come forward to help India in the hour of crisis by sending oxygen concentrators.
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- Coronavirus, Health Care
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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Analysis: Implementing Gender Responsive Strategies Towards Combatting COVID-19 in Africa
The year 2020 witnessed the full effect of the Covid-19 global pandemic that met a world unprepared to deal with the disruptions it brought on
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- Coronavirus, Health Care
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- gender lens
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Facebook Launches New Push to Boost COVID-19 Vaccine Messaging Within Vulnerable Communities
As the COVID-19 vaccine roll-out continues to gain momentum, Facebook is looking to use its reach to promote vaccine information to the most impacted communities, with a specific focus on those that may have limited exposure to vaccine info.
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- Coronavirus, Health Care, Technology
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- vaccines
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Analysis: How Governments Can Redesign Support for Entrepreneurs After COVID-19
In the wake of COVID-19, most governments face unprecedented unemployment. This is particularly challenging in developing economies, which lack robust social safety nets and where unemployment and poverty were pronounced before the pandemic.
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- Coronavirus, Health Care
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- employment, startups
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How Drones May Become Instrumental in South Africa’s Health Services
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles have been used for decades for medical supply deliveries and distributing and food aid to disaster-hit areas. Siyabonga Kamnqa looks at where and how drone technology is used in South Africa’s healthcare services.
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- Health Care, Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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