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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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- 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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Raise Taxes on Cigarettes, Other Tobacco Products: WHO
The World Health Organisation has urged governments around the world to increase taxes on cigarettes and other tobacco products to save lives.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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Why Pharmaceutical Firms in India Hardly Took the Village Road
It's easier to spot an auto showroom in a small town than to locate a pharmacy that sells anything beyond cough and cold, and birth-control pills.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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Panel Pushes for WHO Center for Health Emergencies
The World Health Organization should establish a single, unified WHO Center for Health Emergency Preparedness and Response — but not with Director-General Margaret Chan at the helm.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Getting Vaccines to People Who Need Them Is the Most Important Issue in Global Health
Fear of vaccines has allowed a host of diseases, including measles and whooping cough, to re-surface around the world in recent years.
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A Condom That Tests for STDs Just Before Sex
Just last week, I was joking with some colleagues about whether we could sell a stick of gum with our condoms that, when chewed, would turn a certain color to indicate whether or not you had an STD. It turns out, we were not the only ones with such idea and they ignored the gum and went right to the condom itself.
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