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Buy a Hot Coffee to Help Healthcare in Africa
In a tiny remote village in Africa a young woman known as Christina is studying to become a midwife.
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Gates-Backed Toilet Could Revolutionize Global Sanitation
Five years since the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation first challenged the world to design a sustainable and inexpensive toilet, researchers from Cranfield University may have a viable contender.
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Pivoting to Save Women’s Lives Was the Key to Success for This Medical Technology Startup
Here’s an upsetting statistic: approximately 800 women in developing countries die every day from preventable complications associated with pregnancy and childbirth. When Asa Nordgren and her co-founders realized that physicians were using their digital sonogram service Trice—originally invented as a way for doctors to avoid tedious printouts and CDs in Sweden — to collaborate remotely, they decided to pivot into the global healthcare market to help save women around the world.
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Device Promises Faster Schistosomiasis Diagnosis
A piece of kit that quickly multiplies the DNA of parasitic worms could detect infections by schistosome species more than six times faster than the most accurate existing method.
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Gates-Backed NYC Startup Plumbs Soil Bacteria for Tuberculosis Therapy
Countless therapeutics – and certainly our earliest ones – were discovered from natural sources. Lodo Therapeutics, a new small molecule drug discovery startup based in New York City, is basing its platform on this premise: It will develop medicines that can be produced by uncultured soil bacteria and the human microbiome, chasing global health indications like tuberculosis.
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Brazil Cuts Vaccine Doses as Health System Under Pressure
Brazil has cut the number of doses for vaccinations given by the public health service to counter human papillomavirus (HPV) and pneumonia, as Latin America's largest economy looks to reduce health costs in the midst of a deep recession.
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Cholera Vaccine Supply Set to Double, Easing Global Shortage
Globally, OCV production is low, with demands currently exceeding supply. Sudan and Haiti last year made requests to WHO for supplies of vaccines to conduct pre-emptive vaccination campaigns that could not be filled because of the global shortage.
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Prominent Healthcare Companies Partner With USAID
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) announced two new partnerships today to add resources and cutting-edge technologies to fight drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB). Janssen, the pharmaceutical arm of Johnson & Johnson, announced a $15-20 million pledge as part of a new partnership with USAID to combat Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis (MDR-TB). USAID will also partner with Cepheid, a maker of molecular systems and tests, to speed diagnosis of MDR-TB through increased access to rapid, accurate diagnostic tools.
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