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FG, GSK Freeze Price of Pneumonia Vaccines for Next 10 Years
The federal government in conjunction with a leading pharmaceutical company, GSK, has pledged not to increase the price of pneumonia vaccines for the next 10 years but to rather freeze the price for improved vaccination. The plan, according to the company, would ensure that children in the country do not die of the disease, which is now the number one killer disease amongst children under five.
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Opinion: 20 years of saving lives
In the early 90s, food manufacturer Nutriset joined forces with a French nutritionist, André Briend to work on a more resilient alternative to the therapeutic milk products being used to treat malnourished children. They tested several ideas – including pancakes, doughnuts and biscuits – before the idea to develop a ready-to-eat peanut paste emerged.
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NGOs in East Africa must monitor health issues
The East African Community (EAC) Council of Ministers has directed that non-governmental organisations in the region incorporate health issues into their projects. NGOs will be expected to integrate issues like population control, disease prevention and treatment in their project work plans in order to have a direct impact on humanity.
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China pledges to further promote global health
Premier Li Keqiang on Monday said that China will continue to promote global health issues while providing assistance to other developing countries. Li made the remarks during a speech in Shanghai at the opening ceremony of the Ninth Global Conference on Health Promotion (GCHP).
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The Biter Bit
Killing mosquitoes of the genus Anopheles, the sort that transmit malaria, is a serious business—so serious that some doctors would like to do it by using people as bait. Their idea is to dose those in malarious areas with a drug called ivermectin. This will not protect the dosees directly, for it does not act on the parasite that causes the disease. But it may protect them indirectly, by making their blood poisonous to Anopheles. Mosquitoes do not tend to fly far from the place they hatch, and experiments suggest that if most of a village’s inhabitants were to take ivermectin they could collectively do serious damage to the local Anopheles population. That would substantially reduce the number of cases of malaria in an area.
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How Mining and the Military Created an HIV Epidemic in Indonesia’s Papua
Martina Wanago was sick. In fact, she was sure she would die. She had contracted HIV, which has reached epidemic proportions here in Indonesia’s remote and restive province of Papua. And like many of those infected, she didn’t know what was wrong with her.
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Bayer extends supply facility in Beijing
Bayer inaugurated the extension program of its pharmaceutical products supply Beijing site over the weekend to provide its supply of prescription drugs for Chinese patients. The extension program, with an investment of 100 million euros ($105.9 million), was signed two years ago when German Chancellor Angela Merkel visited China.
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India’s Most Remote Villages Are Getting Better Healthcare With This Cloud-Based Solution
In India, public health care is free, yet years of under-investment in public health means that facilities are also grossly understaffed and under-equipped. The country also has a massive resource gap of over 4 million health workers and, to compound problems, nearly 60% of existing health workers practice in urban areas.
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