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Cautious Optimism: Calculating the Actual Value of a Global Health Game Changer
We all know that vaccines have had huge success in protecting children from deadly diseases. However, the health benefits of vaccines have not been shared equally across the globe.
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- Health Care
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- vaccines
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Better Housing Architecture Could Halve Malaria Cases
Improved housing with features such as closed eaves could lower malaria cases by half in some settings, according to a study.
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- Health Care
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Why Transporting Vegetables Is Not So Different From Delivering Vaccines
Every day in low-income countries throughout the world, tons of fresh fruit and vegetables fail to reach their destinations or become damaged and inedible along the way. By contrast, highly processed foods – likely to include large amounts of fat, sugar or preservatives – reach these same destinations, ready to be eaten by people in need of food. This simultaneous availability of less healthy processed food and shortage of nutritious food is a key factor in the growing combination of undernutrition and obesity throughout many low-income countries.
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- Health Care
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- supply chains, vaccines
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China Developers Chase Next Goldmine With Health-Care Blitz
Chinese real estate developers have begun chasing what they see as the country’s next big business opportunity -- the health-care market.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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Can CSR Funds Make a Difference in Healthcare?
The statistics tell a grim story. India carries 20% of the world’s disease burden, according to data from the World Health Organization (WHO). About 75% of deaths globally are caused by communicable diseases, of which India accounts for 17%. A report published in May by British charity Oxfam says India records the highest number of maternal deaths in the world.
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- South Asia
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Why Too Many Mothers Are Still Dying At Childbirth in West Africa
Maternal mortality rates in West Africa are among the highest in the world. One in every 30 Nigerian mothers die in childbirth compared with one in every 30,000 in Sweden.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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In Global Healthcare, Quality and Access Are What Matters – Not Who Delivers It
When the UN financing for development conference begins in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa, there’s likely to be a big elephant in the room: the private sector.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Botswana’s Hearing Aid Pioneers Are Betting on Solar Power to Go Global
Six years after developing the prototype of a solar-powered hearing aid, Deaftronics, a Botswana-based company, is readying to take its technology global.
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- Energy, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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