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Glaxo promises to give world’s poorest access to its top treatments
Sir Andrew Witty, the outgoing chief executive of GlaxoSmithKline, has unveiled plans to make the company’s latest drugs available to the world’s poorest people at a fraction of the commercial price.
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- Health Care
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A New mHealth Device to Tackle Global Health
That global health is a puzzle that mobile health technologies can help to solve is not new. But it's always amazing to see entrepreneurs dream up new applications nonetheless.
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- Health Care, Technology
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GE and Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship Partner to Accelerate Mother and Child Health Innovation in Sub-Saharan Africa
GE and Santa Clara University’s Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship today announced a partnership that blends Silicon Valley entrepreneurial acumen with venture impact investing to tackle one of the world’s most pressing problems: maternal and child health.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Rotavirus Vaccine Developed Under Make in India Initiative
J P Nadda, Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare attended a function for the national launch of the Rotavirus vaccine as part of the Universal Immunisation Programme (UIP).
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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Patent case in India highlights tensions between public health, protecting innovation
A recent case in India highlights some of the intersections between drug affordability, the need for patent protection on innovation, and differences between national patent law.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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- innovation
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Could Harvesting Fog Help Solve the World’s Water Crisis?
March 22 markted the first anniversary of an ambitious international collaboration between Dar Si Hmad, a Moroccan N.G.O., and several German partner organizations to bring potable water to the Aït Baâmrane tribal region of southwest Morocco using a technology called CloudFisher.
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- Health Care
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- Latin America
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Health Workers: A Triple Return for Health, Economic Growth, and Employment
Creating more jobs for health workers holds the potential to bolster health and health security, spur inclusive economic growth, and empower women and youth, WHO Director-General Dr Margaret Chan said today after the first meeting of the Commission on Health Employment and Economic Growth Lyon, France.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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IKEA Foundation Opens Clean Water Access Through Micro-finance Loans
In cooperation with Water.org, the IKEA Foundation will enable 300,000 people to access clean water and sanitation over the next four years through a micro-finance loan program, foundation CEO Per Heggenes said during a discussion in Jakarta.
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- Asia Pacific
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