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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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- Health Care
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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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Sanergy, Inc., which wastes not, secures $1.7 million
Sanergy, Inc., a social enterprise that makes prefabricated concrete toilets that turn human waste into fertilizer, has raised $1.7 million to expand operations in Nairobi, where it is headquartered.
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- Health Care, Investing
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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India Sets Target to Eliminate Malaria by 2030
The Centre on Thursday set the target of eliminating malaria by 2030 after neighbouring countries like Sri Lanka and Nepal reported no deaths due to the vector-borne disease in the past several years.
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World’s First Dengue Vaccine Now Available in Philippines
The world’s first ever dengue vaccine is now available in the country, and doctors in several private hospitals are providing the vaccine against the potentially deadly dengue virus, the Pediatric Infectious Disease Society of the Philippines (PIDSP) reported yesterday.
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