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Only 3% of world’s healthcare workers are in Africa
Something needs to be done, as Africa has 24% of the world’s burden of diseases but only 3% of the global health workforce.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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This entrepreneur says health care for all starts with keeping local talent
"But if you look at a country like Uganda, my home country, the doctor-patient ratio is one doctor for every 24,000 people. I see myself in these people all the time, because, at one point, I was them."
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Malaria test adapted to predict treatment side-effects
While most patients who receive the drug of choice (artemisinin artesunate) against malaria recuperate, a small number (less than 5 per cent) develop a serious and often fatal anaemia called post-artesunate delayed haemolysis (PADH) within a month of treatment.
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- Health Care
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What Common Kitchen Ingredient Can Help Detect Cervical Cancer?
Each year, cervical cancer kills 270,000 women and a third of these deaths occur in just one country: India.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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As warming brings more malaria, Kenya moves treatment closer to home
With just a medical kit and a mobile phone, health volunteers diagnose villagers with malaria in their own homes.
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- Environment, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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India to Block $1.3 Billion Chinese Pharmaceutical Takeover, Sources Say
Tensions between India and China -- the South Asian nation’s biggest trading partner -- have escalated amid a renewed spat over territory in a remote area of the Himalayas, one of the most serious flareups since a border war in 1962.
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- South Asia
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Malaria costs African economy US$12bn annually
Malaria related health expenditures and lost productivity cost Africa's economy an estimated US$12billion every year, a study has concluded.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Countries and donors should aim for new $90-$90-$90 target on HIV, hepatitis, TB drug prices, study shows
Although the cost of antiretroviral treatment has fallen dramatically since generic manufacturers first began to manufacture versions of antiretroviral drugs in India in 2001, generic products have not been available in all countries due to patent restrictions.
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- Health Care, Investing
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