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Gates Foundation, Seattle Research Institute Team to Give Vaccines a Shot in the Arm
Three powerhouses in the global health sector have teamed to open a new vaccine center in Seattle.
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- Education, Health Care
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China Struggling to Retain Rural Doctors Due to Poor Pay
China is struggling to retain village doctors due to poor pay and working conditions and most of them are leaving to cities in search of better jobs, a survey said.
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- South Asia
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Is It Fair to Accuse the Pharma Industry of Neglecting Tropical Diseases?
When pharma company Sanofi Pasteur was criticised last month for ceasing its production of Africa’s only snakebite anti-venom, the spotlight fell once again on the industry’s apparent lack of interest in the developing world.
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PSI Ethiopia Prepares to Launch PSI’s First Franchise, Pay-for-Use Toilet Business
It was all-hands-on-deck this past August in Addis Ababa when an Ethiopian architect, expert from Sanergy, a sanitation social enterprise based in Kenya, PSI’s WASH coordinator and the distinct and talented team from PSI Ethiopia gathered at the PSI-Ethiopia office.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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How Unilever Is Harnessing Its Brand and Consumer Know-How to Tackle Hygiene
It’s one of the most cost effective public health interventions and it could prevent disease, death and also improve education outcomes, but the challenge for hand-washing is convincing people to actually do it. Unilever, a powerful global brand, is working both through its business and with partners to leverage the company’s skills to help tackle the issue, both because it will grow markets but also because there’s a clear moral case for doing so.
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- Agriculture, Education, Health Care
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Viewpoint: Larry Summers: How Finance Can Fight Disease Epidemics
Lawrence H. Summers, the Charles W. Eliot university professor at Harvard, is a former treasury secretary and director of the National Economic Council in the White House. He is writing occasional posts, to be featured on Wonkblog, about issues of national and international economics and policymaking.
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Innovations in Systems Thinking – 5 Things the World Can Learn From SOCAP15
The biggest challenges of our time do not require patchwork solutions, innovative smartphone apps, or miracle pills, instead they require systems-level innovations that can tackle the root cause of the world's most serious issues.
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Chinese Firm Says Plans to “Mass Produce” Ebola Vaccine
A Chinese firm plans to mass produce a military-developed vaccine against Ebola, even as the epidemic which killed more than 11,000 people in West Africa beings to fade.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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