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New ITU standard enables health data exchange
Following calls for increased global coordination of standards enabling e-health, ITU has offered first stage approval to an important specification enabling an exchange of multimedia health data between a health provider, a controlling function and patient.
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Focus Heightens on Vaccine Preventable Diseases
Nigeria is better off preventing diseases than attempting cures on a continent with some of the highest disease burdens, say experts. This comes as the first indigenous vaccine manufacturer, Innovative Vaccines, launched in Nigeria.
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The quest for WHO prequalification by pharmaceutical firms
Annually, millions of patients in resource-limited countries receive life-saving medicines that are purchased by or through international procurement agencies such as World Health Organisation (WHO), United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF), United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), UNITAID and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria.
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Advancing Breastfeeding: The Power of the Network
Chinese celebrity Ma Yili has over 50 million social media fans, and now she’s using her influence to promote breastfeeding in her home country, where only 28 percent of babies are exclusively breastfed. The “10m2 of Love” campaign Ma is publicizing includes a mobile app to help Chinese women locate and use public breastfeeding spaces. From China to Pakistan, Venezuela and Viet Nam, countries are experimenting with new approaches to promote a life saving, natural practice under threat in the modern world.
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UK aid watchdog tells DfID to focus on quality of healthcare in Kenya
A government watchdog has called on the Department for International Development (DfID) to do more to improve the quality of care at Kenyan health facilities after recording patient complaints of petty corruption and "physical and emotional abuse" by staff.
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Latrine numbers up
The number of Cambodian rural households with access to latrines increased from 23 to 33 per cent in 2013, a Ministry of Rural Development report released yesterday says.
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NGOs Launch New Tool to Map Water and Sanitation in Kenya’s Largest Slum
With an estimated 1.2-million residents, Kibera is Africa’s second largest and one of the biggest slums in the world with some of the poorest living conditions
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Improving Global Health, One Text at a Time
AMREF Kenya receives matching grant for mHealth Project
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