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Charity Attacks Gilead Over Hepatitis C Drug Restrictions
Charity Medecins Sans Frontieres has accused U.S. drugmaker Gilead Sciences Inc GILD.O of restricting access to its breakthrough hepatitis C drug Sovaldi in developing countries as it tries to protect profit margin in wealthier nations.
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- philanthropy, vaccines
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Shop-Based Malaria Kit Boosts Testing for Disease
A trial that trained Ugandan shopkeepers to use subsidised malaria test kits could point to a way of reducing the misuse of malaria medicine.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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How a Sachet of Micronutrient Powder Boosts Somali Children’s Health and Development
Hargeisa, Somaliland March 2015: Hasha Abdi Abdullahi was desperate. She was living in a makeshift camp for the displaced in Hargeisa with her seven children after being forced to leave her home, 50 kilometres away, because of drought. She was heavily in debt and her three-year-old son, Abdisalam Mustafa Farah had started to refuse all food and showed signs of being malnourished.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- nutrition
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Daktari Secures $15.5M for Portable Diagnostic
Cambridge-based Daktari Diagnostics is inching towards commercialization of its fast and portable diagnostics platform, securing $15.5 million in equity funding earlier this month with hopes of entering the global market this year.
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New Initiatives Launched with €365M to Tackle Major Global Health Problems
A £195M fund to address antimicrobial resistance and a $100M VC fund to spur drug discovery in dementia, both announced by the UK government this week, aim to build international coalitions to deal with these threats.
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M&A Activity Set To Increase In Africa’s Health Sector
Mumbai-based pharmaceutical major Lupin Ltd.'s buyout of the remaining 40 percent equity stake in South Africa’s generic drug maker Pharma Dynamics at undisclosed amount last week shed light on other potential windfalls for Africa’s health-care investors.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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The Next Epidemic — Lessons from Ebola
Bill Gates writes: "It's instructive to compare our preparations for epidemics with our preparations for another sort of global threat — war."
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Why Big Data is the booster shot the healthcare industry needs
Big Data solutions can help the health care industry acquire, organise and analyse data to optimise resource allocation, plug inefficiencies, reduce cost of treatment, improve access to health care and advance medicinal research.
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- Health Care
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