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Telemedicine Africa Rolls Out Virtual eHealth Centers in South Africa
Telemedicine Africa has collaborated with Dimension Data and the IDC to set up private telehealth centres in South Africa.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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The Coming Global Boom in Private Healthcare
To many Americans, whose multi-trillion dollar government has just executed a hostile takeover of the healthcare industry, the future of care looks like lawyer-laden socialized medicine in General Motors GM -1.68%-style hospital factories.
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A Magic Wand for Nutrition and Incomes in Mozambique?
Smallholder farmers in Mozambique are growing nutritious and lucrative varieties of orange-fleshed sweet potato.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Unilever Helps Lead Coalition to Solve the Global Sanitation Crisis
2.5 billion in the world have inadequate sanitation. For businesses, that’s 2.5 billion opportunities to increase sales of infrastructure, plumbing, hygiene and cleaning products. Unilever has recognized the magnitude of the global sanitation crisis, the potential for solving it and helped lead the formation of the Toilet Board Coalition (TBC) to do their part.
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Merck’s $9.5 Billion Cubist Deal is Really About the Global War on Drug-Resistant Bacteria
Merck & Co. is paying $8.4 billion in cash and assume $1.1 billion in net debt to acquire Cubist Pharmaceuticals Inc. and join the fight against drug-resistant bacteria — a growing global threat that's slowly fueling a lucrative pharma business.
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Tricking People Into Being Healthy
As though it heard the Christmas wishes of policy nerds everywhere, the World Bank Group made behavioral economics the theme of its 2015 World Development report.
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- Health Care
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Better Healthcare for Low Income Kenyans
The Business Call to Action and Private Sector Innovation Programme for Health (PSP4H) on December 4, 2014 co- hosted an event focused on innovative private sector approaches to delivering better healthcare to low income Kenyans. The event brought together chief executives, senior representatives from governments, bilateral donors, civil society and the United Nations.
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Tanzania to Get Second Floating Clinic
The Lake Tanganyika Floating Health Clinic/WAVE non-governmental organization is introducing a floating health clinic on Lake Tanganyika.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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