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The Developing World’s Health Innovators
We live in an age of tragic health paradoxes. Mass immunization campaigns have eliminated entire diseases, but children in countries like Haiti and Bangladesh continue to die of easily treatable diseases caused by common pathogens. Globalization has lifted millions of people out of extreme poverty, but has left them exposed to the non-communicable diseases of the post-industrial age – from diabetes to heart disease – in countries that lack the resources to treat them.
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Viewpoint: Johnson & Johnson Launches $100k Africa Innovation Challenge
Multinational pharmaceutical and medical devices manufacturer Johnson & Johnson has launched its Africa Innovation Challenge, which will reward a number of solutions in the health and family spaces with up to US$100,000 in funding and mentorship.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Opinion: Why markets should matter to health advocates
Today, one of global health’s biggest challenges — and opportunities — lies in strengthening the markets that make health products, services, and technologies available to those who need them most.
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Funding a set of essential medicines for low- and middle-income countries
As the world moves toward universal health coverage, the question arises: How can governments ensure equitable access to essential medicines in low- and middle-income countries?
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Re-evaluating the ‘cost’ of life: Cancer-preventing HPV vaccines are substantially over-priced, says study
A recent study by leading American health researchers reveals that the manufacturing costs for the two most prevalent Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) vaccines could be priced much lower than even their quoted ‘no profit’ price, thus potentially having a substantial impact on the global morbidity and mortality rates associated with cervical cancer.
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Merck Opens China Pharmaceutical Plant
The world's leading biomedicine company Merck has opened a plant in Nantong, China's eastern Jiangsu Province, to produce pharmaceuticals on the country's Essential Drug List.
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As health system collapses, Zimbabwe turns to street herbs
Zimbabwe’s public health system is collapsing along with the economy, with some major hospitals suspending all non-emergency surgeries because painkillers are scarce.
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UNFPA takes sexual health accelerator to Uganda
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has taken its sexual health-related iAccelerator to Uganda in collaboration with Kampala-based hub Outbox following a successful launch in Nairobi.
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