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Bank of Africa supports health sector
The Bank of Africa Tanzania has started giving loans to health sector institutions such as health centers, dispensaries and hospitals to enable them improve services.
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Getting to know PSI’s market-based sanitation work in India: Part 3 – The supply-and-demand see-saw
The 3SI project is currently offering three toilet designs (standard, deluxe and super deluxe) at three different price points: INR 19,000, 25,000 and 29,000 (US $316, $416 and $483, respectively).
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Gwynedd: Billionaire Microsoft boss Bill Gates funds $1.4m grant for firm’s vaccine cooler
Sure Chill Company receives support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for live-saving vaccination product
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Africa: Neglected Tropical Diseases Treatments Hit 1 Billion Mark
Washington — The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) May 8 celebrated its support of the delivery of 1 billion neglected tropical disease (NTD) treatments that are helping more than 465 million people in 25 countries in some of the world's poorest populations.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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‘Analytical approach’ needed to rethink investment in global health
To reduce overall mortality rates, where should global health investments go? It’s more about understanding the specifics that are the root causes of the mortality rather than whether to investment in this or that country, according to Dr. Mark Grabowsky, chief operating officer at the Office of the U.N. Secretary-General's Special Envoy for Financing the Health Millennium Development Goals and for Malaria.
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- Health Care
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Circumcision and celebrities: scaling-up voluntary medical male circumcision
In Zimbabwe, an estimated 1.4 million people are living with HIV, a prevalence of 15 percent, according to UNAIDS estimates from 2012. Yet estimates today show only nine percent of males in Zimbabwe are circumcised – a low number when considering that male circumcision reduces female-to-male transmission of HIV by 60 percent.
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First step taken in upgrading Myanmar’s Reproductive Health Supply Chain System
Myanmar is one step closer to ensuring that women and families throughout the country receive high quality reproductive health services and products thanks to a UNFPA, and in partnership with John Snow Inc. and the Ministry of Health, backed standardized national logistics supply chain system which was announced on Thursday (08 May 2014) in Nay Pyi Taw, the nation’s capital. A total of 26 professionals attended a 7 day intensive training session on how to implement as well as operate the upcoming system.
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Nigeria, 9 others responsible for 60% of global maternal deaths
As the 2015 Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 5 target of reducing maternal mortality and achieving universal access to reproductive health draws closer, latest reports by the World Health Organisation (WHO) has ranked Nigeria among the 10 countries in the world that contribute about 60 percent of the world’s maternal mortality burden.
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