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India’s missing patients
Lack of awareness and inaccessible healthcare have led to gross under-reporting of illnesses in India.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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- infrastructure
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New Trust ‘Kuwa True’ Campaign Goes Live
A super-hip campaign brings a condom brand back from the brink in Kenya.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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OPINION: What ‘100 Percent Effective’ Means for That Ebola Vaccine
Lat week, the medical journal the Lancet published preliminary results on the efficacy of an Ebola vaccine in Guinea, and everybody got really excited – especially about one particular figure. The vaccine, the results suggested, was 100 percent effective at protecting against Ebola ... But that number probably means less than you think it does.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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A Baltimore health-tech startup is developing a way to recycle blood
Sisu Global Health is developing a medical device that doctors could use to recycle a patient’s blood lost through traumatic internal bleeding. The company later this year will launch a clinical study of the device, called Hemafuse, in partnership with the University of Zimbabwe.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Sustainable development needs sustainable financing — tackling NCDs is no exception
Each year, 16 million people die prematurely before the age of 70 from NCDs. Strikingly, 4 out of 5 of these deaths occur in developing countries like Kenya, making such diseases one of the major development challenges of the 21st century. If countries don’t change tack on NCDs, an estimated $7 trillion could be lost in developing countries over the next 15 years.
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- Environment, Health Care
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The Case for Health As a High-Return Investment
One of the biggest initiatives to come out of last month’s third International Conference on Financing for Development in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, was the Global Financing Facility Trust Fund. Launched in support of the United Nations’ Every Woman Every Child initiative, it was able to align $12 billion in public and private resources towards financing country-led five-year investment plans for women’s, children’s and adolescents’ health.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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The African Startup Using Phones to Spot Counterfeit Drugs
A Ghanaian entrepreneur thinks he has the answer to Africa’s fake medicine problem.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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The ketchup sachet-shaped drug saving babies from HIV
Inside a foil sachet, which looks more at home in a fast-food restaurant, an exact dose of antiretroviral medicine is helping to protect newborn babies against the threat of infection from their HIV-positive mothers.
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- Health Care
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- Latin America
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