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From condoms to toilets, why good design is essential for improving global health
The use of human-centered design principles can help people lead better lives.
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- Health Care
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The Little Red Dot Saving Lives in India
Because nearly every Indian woman wears a bindi – a beauty accessory in the shape of a small dot worn in the center of the forehead – Grey for Good decided to create iodine-coated bindis that could act as a daily supplement if worn for at least four hours.
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- South Asia
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Uber Partners with Discovery Health to Deliver Flu Vaccinations in South Africa
Uber has partnered with Discovery Health to provide South Africans with access to flu vaccinations directly through its app.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- transportation, vaccines
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What’s Next for the Grand Challenges?
Innovative solutions take 15 years to reach their full potential. For the “grand challenges” model of development, now over a decade old, that means the clock is ticking.
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Global Financial Injection ‘Needed to Transform Development of Antibiotics’
"No new classes of antibiotics have been created for decades and our current drugs are becoming less effective as resistance increases," O'Neill explains, of the rationale behind the report.
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Women-Led Startup Develops Cost-Conscious Medical Devices for Emerging Countries
Sisu Global Health co-founder and CEO Carolyn Yarina painted a pretty dire picture of emerging countries’ limited access to medical devices during he company’s pitch at DreamIt Health Baltimore. To tackle that problem, it is working with physicians, nurses and engineers in some of these countries to develop sanitary and safe medical devices than what they currently use that are more affordable than devices that are the standard of care in the U.S.
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D-Rev CEO: We Build Medical Devices for People who Live on Less than $4 a Day
Most medical equipment companies don’t regularly top “most innovative” lists. But D-Rev isn’t your typical medical device maker. The San Francisco-based non-profit wants to help the world’s poorest individuals, who subsist on less than a few dollars per day. Its products include an $80 prosthetic knee and a phototherapy device to treat infants with jaundice.
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Bill and Melina Gates: Autopsies Could Prevent Epidemics, Save Countless Lives
Bill and Melinda Gates believe that performing "minimal autopsies" on dead children could save countless lives.
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- Health Care
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- public health
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