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This High-Tech Vision Test Could Make the World See 20/20
While providing charity eye care in Haiti, Joel Kassalow noticed that a complex eye-testing machine was essential, unwieldy and too costly to buy in multiples — and it became a bottleneck in giving people necessary care. So he offered an innovation he’d created at his company, Smart Vision Labs: a version of the same machine at one-fiftieth the weight and one-hundredth the cost.
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Visualizing stagnation: Funding stalled for global health
There’s plenty of moral and rhetorical support for fighting diseases of poverty, but if you look at global health spending trends lately the story is one of stagnation, or even decline.
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- Health Care
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- public health
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In Global Fight Against HIV, China’s Circumcision Device Makes the Cut
China wants a bigger slice of the global health market and it has a new tactic for getting it: circumcision.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Asia Pacific
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Surgical Intervention: How to Improve Access to Surgical Care in the Developing World
Access to surgical and anaesthetic care is an essential, but often forgotten, component of health care in the developing world.
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- Health Care
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- public policy
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People Are Finally Talking About the Thing Nobody Wants to Talk About
When Elynn Walter walks into a room of officials from global health organizations and governments, this is how she likes to get their attention:
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- Health Care
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Apollo Plans to Assist Lesotho in Healthcare Sector
India's leading healthcare chain Apollo Hospitals is looking to engage with the southern African country of Lesotho to assist it in capacity building in the healthcare sector.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Merck Manuals Health Guides Go Digital, and Free, in Global Push
Merck Manuals, the widely used health guides provided by drugmaker Merck & Co, are moving to a digital-only format in 10 different languages as part of an effort to educate the global community on medical issues.
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- Environment, Health Care
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The shipping containers tackling South Africa’s chronic childcare shortages
A social enterprise operating out of repurposed shipping containers is helping to tackle Cape Town’s lack of childcare facilities.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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