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GE Foundation Expands ImPACT Africa program to Address Critical Shortage of Health Workers in Kenya
The GE Foundation announced today a new Commitment to Action with the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) to expand the ImPACT (Improving Perioperative & Anesthetic Care Training) Africa program in Kenya.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Ebola Death Rate 70 Percent, WHO Says in Dire New Forecast
World Health Organization researchers issued a dire new forecast for the Ebola epidemic Tuesday, one that sees 20,000 cases by November, much sooner than previous estimates. And 70 percent of patients are dying.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Obama Goes to UN With Islamic State, Ebola on Agenda
President Barack Obama heads to the United Nations General Assembly this week with two missions: to rally international support for a coalition against Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria and to back his plan to fight the Ebola virus in West Africa.
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- Education, Health Care
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Gates Foundation to Aid India in ‘Toilets For All’ Program
The Urban Development Ministry and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation have agreed on a partnership to promote user-friendly toilets to ensure universal sanitation in the country.
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- South Asia
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Wireless sensor warns if vaccines get too hot
A wireless sensor that sends text message alerts to healthcare workers could help better protect temperature-sensitive vaccines and provide crucial data on storage, transport and distribution infrastructures in developing nations, according to its inventors.
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UN announces mission to combat Ebola, declares outbreak ‘threat to peace and security’
The Security Council, in its first emergency meeting on a public health crisis, declared the Ebola outbreak in West Africa a threat to peace and security and announced that the United Nations will deploy a new emergency health mission.
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5 Techy Solutions for Health Systems
There's a shortage of doctors, nurses and midwives worldwide, so there's a need to make the most of those currently in the field. Here are several ways to do that.
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The black market for Ebola survivors’ blood
Blood from Ebola survivors is rich with antibodies against the deadly virus, and since there is currently no approved drug to fight it, some have become desperate enough to take fate into their own hands and turn to the black market for an experimental serum made with survivors' blood.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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