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Emaar India Organizes Free Health Camps for Its Site Workers
India's leading real estate developer Emaar India is conducting a fortnight-long free health checkup and screening program for construction labourers and staff employed at it project sites in Gurgaon and Mohali.
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- South Asia
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Viewpoint: The U.S. Is Standing in the Way of Cheaper Drugs for the Poor
Every few months, a drug company gets caught cranking up prices. Most recently, Mylan, the maker of EpiPen, took its turn in the hot seat for raising the price of a lifesaving allergy treatment by 500 percent. Congress was rightly enraged and opened yet another inquiry into pharmaceutical price gouging. Mylan offered discount coupons.
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This Startup Wants to Get Cameroon Talking About Sex
“Many people in Africa lack access to basic information regarding sexual health because of the taboo that surrounds the topic.” That’s according to Cameroonian entrepreneur Adamou Nchange Kouotou, founder of Africa Health Initiative – the creator of Kalanda app.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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11 Health Innovations to Drastically Cut Maternal and Child Mortality Rates
Achieving the ambitious target to end maternal and child deaths, enshrined in the sustainable development goals (SDGs), will require ingenuity. The good news is that 11 health innovations could save more than 6 million mothers and children by 2030, if they are invested in and used widely in 24 priority countries.
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- Health Care, Impact Assessment
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Are Altered Mosquitoes a Public Health Project, or a Business?
The fight against dengue and Zika in Latin America is turning into a contest between mosquito-altering technologies, and between profits and public health. Nonprofits and corporations are in a race to fight dengue and Zika.
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South Africa: Automated Medicine Dispenser Wins Samsung Prize
A new automated chronic medicine dispensing system is on the way. The Technovra system took first place at the Samsung South Africa Launching people- Mixed Talents competition, it is a pilot project for the national Department of Health.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Sanofi partners with Brazil to accelerate Zika vaccine work
Sanofi has struck a collaboration deal with a leading Brazilian research institute to speed development of a Zika vaccine, consolidating the French drugmaker's position in the race to defeat the mosquito-borne virus.
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Is Uganda’s Matibabu Africa’s next big e-health innovation?
Africa is increasingly gaining a reputation in the e-health space, thanks to the innovatives solutions developed by the likes of LifeQ, Vula Mobile and hearScreen. A young Ugandan, Makerere University graduate Brian Gitta, may well have the next one on his hands. His company, thinkIT, has developed Matibabu, a non-invasive device used to test for malaria, with smartphones used for diagnosis.
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- Health Care, Technology
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