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New Malaria Strategy Would Double Current Funding
Although malaria is both preventable and curable, it still killed an estimated 584,000 people in 2013, the majority of them African children.
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- Health Care
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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New Approach Provides More Complete Picture of Donor Support for Key Global Health Issues
As the world's leaders gather in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, for the Financing for Development Conference, a study published in The Lancet demonstrates that a new approach is needed for classifying funding that reflects the function the funding serves, rather than the specific disease or country. The study is the first in-depth assessment of how donor funding is spent on global versus country-specific functions of health.
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- Education, Health Care
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Greek Debt Crisis: ‘Of All the Damage, Healthcare Has Been Hit the Worst’
Above a dark, tatty arcade of wholesale button traders and empty shop fronts in Thessaloniki, Greece’s second largest city, one mother was rocking a sick baby and another was carrying a toddler as they waited to see a volunteer paediatrician in the brightly painted clinic run by the Greek branch of the NGO Doctors of the World.
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- Health Care
- Region
- Europe & Eurasia
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Oral Cholera Vaccine Could Speed Control Efforts, Trial Finds
An oral vaccine has reduced cases of severe cholera by nearly 40 percent in a key trial in Bangladeshi slums, suggesting the shot could be used routinely to help endemic countries control the life-threatening disease.
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- Health Care
- Region
- South Asia
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- vaccines
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Food Politics Hits India’s Most Malnourished Children
Clutching battered metal plates, the children waited patiently in a remote central Indian village for the two small flat pieces of bread and scoop of boiled potato curry that would be their only full meal that day.
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- Health Care
- Region
- South Asia
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- nutrition
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Bringing Innovation to the Front Line of Global Health
Lelio Marmora, UNITAID executive director, discusses how to accelerate introduction of effective new health solutions.
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- Health Care
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Can Tobacco Excise Taxes Be a Boon for NCD Financing?
Governments need to put more effort in implementing one of the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control’s proven measures to reduce demand and deaths from tobacco use — levying high taxes on tobacco products.
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- Health Care
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- regulations
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Indian Medtech Startup Gets $10M Injection to Be Facebook for Healthcare
Indian healthcare communication platform Lybrate announced today it has secured US$10.2 million in series A funding from Tiger Global Management, Indian business tycoon Ratan Tata, and existing investor Nexus Venture Partners. The company previously received US$1.2 million in seed funding.
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- Health Care
- Region
- South Asia
- Tags
- impact investing
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