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Airtel, Apollo to drive telemedicine in Nigeria
Nigeria’s third largest telecoms firm, Airtel, has partnered one of the largest integrated healthcare providers in the world, Apollo Hospitals, to enhance access to world-class healthcare services in Nigeria.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Drugmakers may need indemnity for fast-tracked Ebola vaccines
Drugmakers are looking for some kind of indemnity from governments or multilateral agencies against possible losses or claims arising from the widespread emergency use of new Ebola vaccines in Africa.
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- Health Care
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Africa: Jovago, Unicef Partner to Enhance Infant Registration in Africa
Jovago.com - an online hotel booking company- and UNICEF have launched a partnership with the aim of ensuring official birth registration of every child born in Africa.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Philips, GE Healthcare going big on Connected Healthcare R&D in India
Engineers from Philips Innovation Labs and GE Healthcare in Bangalore are experimenting with mobility platforms and healthcare which will come to life in India soon in the form of a connected medical world.
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- Education, Health Care, Technology
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- public health, research
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Drugmakers to join forces to make millions of Ebola vaccine doses
Leading drugmakers plan to work together to accelerate development of an Ebola vaccine and produce millions of doses of the most effective experimental product for use next year.
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- Health Care
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Liberians have another challenge – marginalization
"How is it that we have again become the marginalized of the earth?" That is what people ask Bishop Anthony Borwah of Gbarnga, in Liberia, the country most affected by the outbreak of Ebola.
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- Education, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Pharma companies feel law change can weaken ability to provide low-cost drugs
Indian drugmakers and public health activists are deeply worried that sections of the American pharmaceutical industry may use the recently announced Indo-US working committee on intellectual property rights to force changes in Indian patent laws to further their commercial interests at the cost of the domestic industry.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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- vaccines
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Steroids Are No Boon to World’s Poorer Women
Giving steroids to women who are about to give birth prematurely — a standard lifesaving medical practice in richer countries — may be useless or even dangerous in poor countries where most women give birth at home, a major new study has found.
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- Health Care
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- public health
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