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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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India likely to extend price caps to more drugs-sources
(Reuters) - India is likely to raise the number of drugs deemed essential and therefore subject to price caps to improve affordability, said people directly involved in the process.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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Serenus Biotherapeutics sees large potential market in Africa
San Francisco's newest pharmaceutical company is staking its future on a distant continent: Africa.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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PRESS RELEASE: “Project Last Mile” Expands to Improve Availability of Life-Saving Medicines in Additional Regions of Africa
The Coca-Cola Company, USAID, the Global Fund, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation invest more than $21M USD to expand initiative to 10 countries
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Radio Station Reaches Remote Areas Through Cell Phones
Unilever in India launches a marketing initiative that provides entertainment and ads in areas unreachable by other media.
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- Health Care, Technology
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Citizen Sensors Make India’s Complicated Water System A Little Easier To Navigate
With the help of simple mobile phone technology, a nonprofit called NextDrop is improving access to water for poor families.
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- Health Care, Impact Assessment
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Are World Cup viewers receiving a message that could make them sick?
The World Cup has a profound social impact, including on global health, according to Kent Buse and Sarah Hawkes
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- Health Care, Impact Assessment
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- nutrition
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High cost of vaccines complicates crisis response in South Sudan
Aid group Médecins Sans Frontières says thousands of children have missed critical vaccines because pharmaceutical companies won’t budge on price
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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