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$1.3B Lost to Five Diseases Every Year
Uganda will lose $1.3b in 14 years by 2030, which is about $92.8m (about 306b) annually, in treatment and loss of opportunity due to five preventable tropical diseases, new data at the World Economic Forum indicates.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Viewpoint: The Promise of Digital Health in LMICs
Having started my career as an emergency physician in countries across Africa — from Angola and Mozambique, to the Sudan and the Caucasus — I was regularly faced with long and often dangerous journeys to reach my patients. I would fly in by plane and then travel on my bike, crossing rivers — it was the only way they could receive the treatment and medical care they needed. Often I couldn’t stay for long, or sometimes I came too late.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Diagnosis App Scoops Africa Health Prize
An app that allows rural doctors to seek advice remotely from experts won Africa's first prize recognising new technology that boosts health on the continent.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Why the Vaccination Supply Chain Needs Reform
I recently returned from a week in Mozambique with a goal of learning about new immunization supply chain models and observing their impact. I also wanted to better understand opportunities and constraints for taking this work to scale -- in Mozambique and across other Gavi-eligible countries.
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- Health Care
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- supply chains, vaccines
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Behind the World’s Top Drugmakers’ Approach to Zika Vaccine
What if a drugmaker spent billions of dollars to create a vaccine -- only to find out humans developed natural resistance to the disease before its product is ready?
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- Health Care
- Region
- Latin America
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- vaccines
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India’s New Patent Policy Spurs Debate Over Implications for Pharma
Amid an ongoing rift with the US government, India last week issued a new policy about intellectual property, but opinions are divided over whether the move will appease the pharmaceutical industry, which has been pushing the Indian government to strengthen patent protection.
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- Health Care
- Region
- South Asia
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- public health
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Viewpoint: Secret Vote on WHO Bodes Ill for Future of Global Health
With the future of global health more uncertain than it has been in more than a decade, the first hats have been tossed into the election ring for top leadership at the World Health Organization. It is a dire time for WHO, which has seen its financial and political support erode steadily for the last decade, its credibility suffering mightily over its slow and sloppy response to the 2014 Ebola outbreak.
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- Health Care
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- public health
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4 Ways for the Private Sector to Support Women’s Health
Reflecting on what is needed to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, I am struck by how much work is needed to secure the place of reproductive health in discussions on gender equality and women’s economic empowerment.
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- Health Care
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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