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J&J and Bavarian Nordic Start Clinical Tests of Ebola Vaccine
Johnson & Johnson has started clinical trials of its experimental Ebola vaccine, which uses a booster from Denmark's Bavarian Nordic, making it the third such shot to enter human testing.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Japanese Drugmakers Addressing Neglected Tropical Diseases, and Not Just Out of Altruism
Japanese drugmakers are developing medicines to treat infectious diseases that have been overlooked because there is little financial incentive.
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- Health Care
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- Asia Pacific
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Menstrual Cups Are Lifesavers for Girls in East Africa
Menstrual cups are proving to be lifesavers, and are changing the way girls in East Africa deal with something every single female in the world does: their period.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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7 Family Planning Trends to Watch for in 2015
This year promises to be an interesting one for international family planning. Here are seven issues and trends to watch for:
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Research, Policy, and the Private Sector: Sir Richard Feachem on Malaria
Sir Richard Feachem led the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria from its inception in 2002 until 2007, just one part of his illustrious career in public health. We were fortunate to host Sir Richard in November for a Development Policy Centre seminar.
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- Education, Health Care
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- public health, research
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Bill Gates’ Plan to Help the Developing World Profit From Its Sewage
Bill Gates walks up to the water tap, but before he can drink, his entourage pulls him to one side. One woman takes off his glasses and rearranges his hair. Another dabs on a little makeup. And, at one point, someone hands him a Mason jar.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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How Companies and NGOs Can Work Together to Tackle Food Security
While the year of agriculture and nutrition, as declared by the African Union, may be over, those issues will undoubtedly remain top development priorities and can present unique opportunities for collaboration with business.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- nutrition
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Malaria Vaccine? Genetic Engineering Turns Parasite Into Vaccine Candidate
Malaria is one of the Great Diseases. This mosquito-borne illness killed some 627,000 people in 2012, most of them children in sub-Saharan Africa. Efforts in the last decade have cut mortality rates for the disease by an impressive 45 percent, but malaria continues to be a massive public health burden wherever it persists.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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