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Q&A: SystemOne CEO on data solutions improving health care in developing countries
Health monitoring systems are an important fight in the battle to identify, contain and monitor diseases that have the potential to infect thousands, if not millions, of people worldwide. Outbreaks of Ebola and Zika have shown the fundamental flaws in our systems to respond quickly in order to halt a disease in its track — particularly in developing countries.
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Campaigners refuse to throw in the towel over India’s ‘tax on blood’
In India, it is a subject usually spoken about in whispers or behind closed doors. But after a social media campaign by a local politician, Bollywood stars, comedians and writers have joined thousands of people in tweeting videos of themselves urging finance minister Arun Jaitley to scrap sales taxes on sanitary towels.
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NNPC diversifies into health sector
Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Thursday, said it was set to diversify into the health sector.
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Afreximbank picks Nigeria as Africa’s centre of excellence for healthcare services
The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) has selected Nigeria as Africa’s first centre of excellence for healthcare services, where it would support development of firstclass healthcare facilities. In a statement on Thursday in Lagos, Afreximbank President, Dr Benedict Oramah, said that the strategic plan was also to diversify Africa’s exports and promote trade in health and medical services.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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I taught a non-MD to do brain surgery. This radical approach could solve the global surgeon shortage
One of the world’s most pressing global health stories has long been hiding in plain sight — the devastating shortage of surgeons in many countries around the world.
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Neglected Tropical Diseases: Gates Celebrates Industry Contribution, Chan Concurs
Five years after health institutions and actors including pharmaceutical companies endorsed the London Declaration on Neglected Tropical Diseases, meant to support the World Health Organization to control and eradicate 10 specific diseases by 2020, new commitments were announced today (18 April) in Geneva.
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This innovator is trying to make sanitary pads affordable for women in India
But first: an unlikely innovation from an unusual innovator. Special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro has the story of one man who has made it his mission to bring affordable hygiene products to women in India. Its part of our series Agents for Change.
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Promoting health innovation in Nigeria through private sector intervention
Despite the large number of investments made in Nigeria’s health sector over the past 10 years, the attraction in achieving the desired results of improved health outcomes could be better.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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