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Patient Data Company Commits to the Business Call to Action While Expanding Low-cost Mobile Health Services in India
Company links health security with better medical outcomes
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- Health Care, Technology
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- South Asia
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Accion’s Venture Lab Closes Two New Investments
Impact-investing initiative announces close of investments in seed-stage companies that provide payments, health care and microinsurance products to clients at the base of the pyramid.
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- Health Care
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Mobile Clinics Bring Health Care to South Africa Countryside
South Africa has a serious lack of healthcare facilities in rural areas. In many cases, people must walk for kilometers to reach the closest clinic. But some new solar-powered mobile clinics are changing that.
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- Energy, Health Care
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- solar
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8 Incredibly Effective Ways to Save Children from Preventable Deaths
How many children's lives can be saved with $1 million? That's the question posed to the eight finalists in the inaugural Caplow Children’s Prize, the biggest humanitarian prize for saving the lives of children.
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- Health Care
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7M more healthcare workers needed to meet world demand
In order to meet demand for essential health services, the world needs at least 7.2 million more nurses, midwives and doctors, according to a new report by the Global Health Workforce Alliance and the World Health Organization, presented at the Third Global Forum on Human Resources for Health.
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- Education, Health Care
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Pneumonia responsible for 20% of child deaths
Global health bodies highlight essential interventions that will help reduce the incidence of pneumonia as the disease remains the single biggest killer of children under five globally. Pneumonia claims the lives of more than 1 million girls and boys every year despite pneumonia deaths being preventable.
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Most African nations ‘will not achieve Millennium Development Goals’
Most African countries will not achieve Millennium Development Goals (MDG) by the 2015 deadline, women leaders have said. The women raised the red flag in Addis Ababa Ethiopia during a meeting that brought together leaders from across the continent.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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India continues to have largest pneumonia & diarrheal disease burden in world
U.S. based, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health recently highlighted the Pneumonia and Diarrhoea Progress Report 2013 which showed that India continues to have the largest pneumonia and diarrhoeal disease burden in the world.
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- Health Care
- Region
- South Asia
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