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Can innovation help stop children dying from pneumonia?
Pneumonia is the world’s number one cause of preventable death among children under five years old. Every year, pneumonia kills nearly one million children – more than AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined. What makes this number of pneumonia deaths so unfathomable is that its cure is well-known, inexpensive and widely available.
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- Health Care
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Turning the tap on: Water as a business model
Too many people in the world don’t have access to safe drinking water in their homes. This month’s meeting of theWorld Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council in Dubai could be the first step to changing that.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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- public health
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Injections could be a thing of the past with scientists developing a way to inhale vaccines
Fear of a trip to the doctors and a jab of a needle could be a thing of the past, with scientists developing a world-first needless injection to dispense vaccines.
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- Education, Health Care
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Woman Care Global to Market Signos RT Innovative Handheld Ultrasound Technology in Africa and Latin America
Woman Care Global (WCG) has announced that it will market, Signos RT, an innovative handheld ultrasound technology, in Africa and Latin America.
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- Health Care
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Mobile technology reduces maternal mortality
Abdul-Rashid Imoro, Project Officer of Sexual Reproductive Health Rights (SRHR) of Savana Signatures, a Tamale NGO, has said some health facilities in the Northern Region had recorded zero maternal mortality due to mobile phone technology the NGO had introduced in the area
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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OPINION: Sterlisation deaths: A rotten healthcare system continues to play havoc in Chhattisgarh
The sterilization camp that left 13 women dead and many battling for life has exposed the rotten healthcare system in Chhattisgarh, yet again.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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India takes action on spurious and sub-standard drugs
An American pharmacist and an Indian pharmacologist charged with smuggling four million fake pharmaceuticals into the country earlier this month may have been the last straw for the Indian government battling counterfeit drugs.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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Pre-plan for ebola-style crises
African operators have been advised to pre-plan for a crisis such as the one faced by West African countries in the form of the ebola outbreak, by ensuring people are signed up to information dissemination services in advance.
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- Health Care
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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