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NDC says no to ‘needless’ Ebola vaccines trial in Volta region
The ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) outfit in the Volta region is warning it will resist any attempt by the government to use Voltarians as “guinea pigs in a needless” Ebola vaccines trial.
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Press Release: Amref Health Africa in the USA Awarded $6M CDC Grant to Build Laboratory Systems in South Sudan
Amref Health Africa, the Ministry of Health of the Republic of South Sudan (RSS) and partners will manage a five-year (2015–2020) USD$ 6 million Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) grant aimed at building the capacity of laboratory and blood transfusion services to respond to health needs of the population of the RSS. The project's focus is to systematically strengthen the capacity of the National Public Health Laboratory to support country-wide laboratory services.
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Seashells Inspire Drug, Vaccine Development
Mimicking nature, Australian scientists have developed a protective seashell-inspired capsule to preserve the active biological ingredients needed to create promising new drugs.
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Sustainability and Systems Change Via a Sanitary Pad
It is a fundamental human right for a girl or woman to have the ability to manage basic biological functions. Yet four in five East African women and girls cannot access sanitary pads due to their lack of affordability.
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Women’s Contribution to Healthcare Constitutes Nearly Five Percent of Global GDP, but Nearly Half Unpaid, Unrecognized
A major new Commission on women and health has found that women are contributing around $3 trillion to global health care, but nearly half of this (2.35% of global GDP) is unpaid and unrecognised.
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Ebola’s Long Shadow: West Africa Struggles to Rebuild Its Ravaged Health-Care System
J.J. Dossen Memorial Hospital, on the southeastern tip of this nation recently declared free of Ebola, has three doctors and spotty electricity. Sixteen of its 46 nurses left during the Ebola crisis. When two motorcycle accident victims needed X-rays, the hospital dispatched them in its only ambulance on a bumpy eight-hour ride to the nearest facility with a machine.
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Bill Gates, Dr. Paul Farmer, and African Tycoon Strive Masiyiwa on Combating Future Epidemics
Forbes 400 Fellow Katie Meyler’s voice trembled and her eyes teared up as she told a roomful of billionaires and philanthropists gathered for the Forbes 400 Summit onPhilanthropy Wednesday the plight of Sarah, a 10-year old girl from Liberia who lost her father and sister to Ebola before the disease killed her, too.
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OPINION: Global Health: Who Should Pay For Your Altruism?
Rather than policies aimed at reducing prices for HIV treatments, which place all the financing burden on innovators and reduce the incentive for innovation, policies should aim to subsidize HIV treatment in the developing world.
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