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A total market for circumcision
How private sector providers add marketing and distribution value for voluntary medical male circumcision
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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India to enter top two markets for health company Abbott
Close on the heels of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's "Make in India" call, global health giant Abbott is setting up a Rs 450-crore plant for manufacturing nutrition products in Jhagadia, Gujarat.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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IBM Teams on First Watson Application in Africa
IBM and Metropolitan Health of South Africa have teamed to create a new health care customer service service based on Big Blue's Watson cognitive computing system.
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- Education, Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Doctors Without Borders Is Experimenting With Delivery Drones To Battle An Epidemic
Drones aren't delivering pizza just yet. But they could soon help save lives in places where health care is hard to reach.
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- Health Care
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Profit motive big hurdle for Ebola drugs, experts say
For nearly four decades, mention of the Ebola virus has evoked death and terror, yet a simple factor—money—has stood in the way of erasing the curse, experts say.
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- Education, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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DuPont suits part of battle against Ebola crisis
The World Health Organization estimates a monthly need for 300,000 personal protection suits or seven suits daily per Ebola patient bed, according to Daniel Epstein, spokesman for WHO.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Digital doctors: China sees tech cure for healthcare woes
There's been a rise recently in digital healthcare, or eHealth, to bridge the chasm between China's developed health services in large cities and its grassroots rural care.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Asia Pacific
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After Winning Hult Prize, MBA Entrepreneurs Seek To Heal Indian Healthcare
Manish Ranjan led his business school team to victory in the Hult Prize 2014. Now, the MBA entrepreneur has grand plans to help fix India's healthcare system.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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