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Haiti launches anti-cholera vaccination campaign
The Haitian government along with international partners including the World Health Organization launched a vaccination campaign against cholera on Saturday targeting 100,000 people in vulnerable areas of the impoverished Caribbean country.
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- Health Care
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- Latin America
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Serum Institute, Bilthovan to slash polio vaccine prices
Pune-based Serum Institute of India Ltd and its Netherlands unit Bilthoven Biologicals BV on Tuesday announced about a 50% reduction in the price of their polio vaccines for the United Nation’s global polio eradication programme.
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- Health Care
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- supply chains, vaccines
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In New Haven, Barbara Bush talks about public health innovation at Yale
Social entrepreneurs from Yale Univeristy are changing the nature of public health, from creating replacement arteries to training the global health leaders of tomorrow.
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- Education, Health Care
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Uganda accuses World Bank of aid blackmail
Uganda accused the World Bank of blackmail on Friday after the lender stalled a $90m loan over the east African nation’s adoption of a draconian anti-gay law.
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- Health Care, Impact Assessment
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Africa: Mobile Mast Vaccine Storage Project Wins Global Prize
An organisation that uses surplus energy from mobile phone masts to refrigerate vaccines in remote areas was named as the Best Mobile Health Product or Service at the Global Mobile Awards this week.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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USAID and P&G Kick Off Global Development Alliance to Improve Health in Myanmar
Administrator Rajiv Shah yesterday helped deliver the first liter of clean drinking water under the Global Development Alliance (GDA) between the US Agency for International Development (USAID) and Procter & Gamble (P&G) to improve health in India.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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- South Asia
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Indian drug firms may lose out as US pharma supply chain consolidates
Consolidation in the pharmaceuticals supply chain in the US will weigh on the bargaining power of Indian drug firms in that market, top Indian players apprehend. A spate of acquisitions and joint ventures — 16 in 2012 and 10 in 2013 — has resulted in fewer suppliers of prescription drugs, which might work against the interests of Indian firms.
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- Health Care
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- supply chains
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South Africa: Brics Countries Urged to Focus On Issues of Gender Equality
Social Development Minister Bathabile Dlamini has urged officials and experts from Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS), attending the Inaugural BRICS seminar on population matters, to give special attention to exchanging ideas on advancing both gender and reproductive health rights.
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- Education, Health Care
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