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USAID, General Electric to finance health programme in Kenya
USAID, GE partner with Kenyan bank to finance health programme - The US Agency for International Development (USAID) and General Electric (GE), in conjunction with Kenya Commercial Bank (KCB), Tuesday announced a new partnership that will make up to US$ 10 million in local financing available to small- and medium-enterprises in the country.
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Chagas Disease: Urgent Measures Are Needed
Global health topics are typically presented in the context of extreme poverty in sub-Saharan Africa or Asia. However, today approximately 100 million people in the Western Hemisphere also live on less than $2 per day. About 10 percent of these "bottom 100 million" currently live with a serious and life-threatening neglected disease known as Chagas disease or American trypanosomiasis.
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- Education, Health Care
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GAVI raises $152 million for vaccinations with private sector partnerships
The GAVI Alliance announced on Friday that it secured $152 million to immunize children against disease using private sector partnerships, a unique funding mechanism leveraging cash and expertise from corporations and foundations.
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- Health Care
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GE’s Immelt Urges More Private Investment in Africa Health Care
General Electric Co. Chief Executive Officer Jeffrey Immelt urged private investors to provide more funding for health care in African nations, where government-run services are overstretched.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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The Global Shortage of Health Workers
Health workers are essential for health care. Without health workers there are no health systems, yet there is a critical global shortage of them, and it is the poorest countries that are most affected.
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- Education, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Janssen announces new group to tackle global health
Will implement R&D and access strategies to support areas with unmet public health need
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- Education, Health Care
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- product design, research
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Philippines Works to Freeze Spread of Childhood Diseases
On Wednesday the Philippine government’s Research Institute for Tropical Medicine, or RITM, will get new walk-in freezer, which will be used to store vaccines for various viruses, measles included.
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- Health Care
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- Asia Pacific
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Kenyan rural eye hospital finds profit in service
Few people would think of establishing a private healthcare facility in Kenya’s rural areas as many patients in these regions cannot afford private care.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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