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Africa’s Meningitis A Vaccine: How Partnership Replaced ‘Big Pharma’
Four years after it was first used in a mass vaccination campaign, the MenAfriVac vaccine has achieved an extraordinary outcome; cases of meningitis A have dropped to almost zero in the epidemic belt across Africa.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Cancer Drugs, Stents at 60 Percent Discount Soon
Over 200 cancer drugs, 186 medicines to treat cardiovascular diseases and 148 stents and cardiac implants will now be available at central government hospitals at prices 50-60% lower than the open market.
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- South Asia
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Ebix Launches ‘Ask a Doctor’ in Rajasthan, Plans to Expand
The Atlanta, Georgia-based international supplier of on-demand software and e-commerce services to the insurance, financial and healthcare industries, Ebix Inc., recently announced it gas launched its telemedicine service, “Ask a Doctor,” throughout the state of Rajasthan.
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GSK Sets 10-year Price Reduction For Pneumococcal Vaccines
The pharmaceutical gaint, GlaxoSmithKline has announced a 10-year steady reduction in price of pneumococcal vaccines to enable Nigeria continue to purchase vaccines at prices meant for low-income countries still dependent on support from the Global Alliance for Vaccine Initiative (GAVI).
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Hyacinths and Sawdust Used to Combat Cooking Pollution
A brew made from sawdust and water hyacinth flowers may help reduce the millions of lives lost across the developing world from the fumes of ramshackle cooking equipment.
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Sanofi Pasteur CEO Has Ambitious Goals
The APEC CEO Summit, part of the Asia Economic Conference (Apec) Philippines 2015, is the Asia-Pacific’s premier business event for Apec leaders and business executives to discuss the futere of Asia-Pacific economies. Olivier Charmeil, Sanofi Pasteur’s CEO, joins other business leaders for a two-day discussion, presentations and dialogue on a wide range of issues that will impact the future development of the region, including innovation, trade, sustainability and disaster resilience.
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Mozzie Field Test Kit Attracts Gates Foundation Funding
Research being undertaken by a team at the University of the Sunshine Coast has caught the attention of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
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Health-e News: Medicine Stock-Outs Are Hard to Diagnose
From the Eastern Cape to Limpopo, medicine shortages continue to be reported throughout South Africa. In a year in which it seems stock outs have become the new mystery disease, the shortages have difficult causes that are sometimes hard to pin down.
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