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Is Warby Parker Too Good to Last?
The first thing to know is that I’m wearing a pair of Warby Parker glasses as I write this. My bias is as plain as the frames on my face. I like the company I’m writing about.
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Why USAID is shifting maternal health funds toward Africa, Asia
ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA — The US Agency for International Development announced today that 26 countries have done so well at achieving maternal and child health goals that they’re now on their own. Their funding will instead go to 24 countries where mothers and children are still dying at alarming rates.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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A New Malnutrition Vaccine for the World’s Poor
When we think about the world's most pressing global health issues, usually diseases or conditions such as HIV/AIDS, malaria or influenza come to mind.
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Nigeria: India and Healthcare Delivery in Nigeria
Quality and affordable healthcare delivery is one challenge that Nigeria still battles with. While government at various levels have carried out reforms at one time or the other in the healthcare system, the fact remains that most of the Nigerian hospitals still lack infrastructure of international standard.
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Big tobacco snubs health warning law in Indonesia
Tobacco companies have largely snubbed an Indonesian law requiring them to put graphic health warnings on all cigarette packs, another setback for anti-smoking efforts in a country that's home to the world's highest rate of male smokers and a wild, wild west of advertising.
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- Education, Health Care
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Inaugural CAMTech India ‘Jugaad-a-thon’ launched
Kolkata, June 24 (IBNS): CAMTech India, a new United States Agency for International Development (USAID/India) funded public-private partnership to accelerate medical technology innovation for reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health (RMNCH) in India, announced its first medical technology hack-a-thon in Bangalore on July 18-20.
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Honoring mHealth’s young talent
Two young entrepreneurs are receiving international recognition for mHealth products that aim to improve healthcare delivery in Third World countries.
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Tackling healthcare challenges through digital innovations
It is business as usual at the Comprehensive Care Centre (CCC) at Kenyatta National Hospital in Nairobi. Patients move in and out of different rooms as medical specialists address various concerns.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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