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Hershey partners with cocoa suppliers to build health centers
The Hershey Co. has partnered with cocoa suppliers Blommer Chocolate and Olam Cocoa to fund and build a community health center in Cote d’Ivoire in the town of Teapleau on the Western side of the country.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Price for TB Drug Too High, Unaffordable, MSF Says
International medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) have expressed concern over the high price announced for new tuberculosis (TB) drug, delamanid.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Japanese Company Produces Fastest Vaccines Using Tobacco Leaves
Japanese pharma company Mitsubishi Tanabe has developed a vaccine production process using tobacco leaves which allows it to manufacture the vaccines at one sixth of the time taken normally, Japanese financial daily Nikkei reported Tuesday.
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- Asia Pacific
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There’s Now a Rapid Zika Test in the U.S.
Two Texas hospitals have created a rapid, hospital-based test for Zika – but it's not available everywhere yet.
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- North America
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A $2 Test Might Have Helped This Man With HIV Avoid Daily Spinal Taps
His body wasted from AIDS, Fred Muzaya sat up in his bed on a January morning at Mulago Hospital in Kampala, Uganda, and faintly smiled at a doctor he couldn't see.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Synthetic biology’s first malaria drug meets market resistance
Commercial use of genetically engineered yeast to make medicine has modest impact.
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Study: Vaginal Ring Offers Some Protection Against HIV
An insertable vaginal ring containing a month's supply of a continuous-release HIV prevention drug reduced the risk of HIV in African women by at least 27 percent, a new study found.
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Samsung to Launch Pasha Centre-Like Digital Villages In Kenya, Others
Samsung said that it will be launching Pasha Centers-Like Digital Villages in Kenya, Ethiopia and Tanzania this year that will focus on the challenges in undeserved and rural communities, provide people in this areas with access to ICT so they can learn about and utilize educational and health solutions, reports Footprint to Africa.
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- Energy, Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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