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China eyes health research cooperation with Africa
China plans to improve the health services it provides in Africa and expand its medical aid there, according to the International Cooperation unit at China's National Health and Family Planning Commission.
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- Education, Health Care
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- Asia Pacific
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- research
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There’s a new HIV drug – but Africa will have to wait
A new drug, Tivicay, that could be vital in the struggle against HIV, might not be available to those who need it the most.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Increasing Profits by Reaching Pharma’s Silent Majority
We hear a lot in pharma about the voice of the customer, but the drug industry can’t hear the voices of millions of people around the world who might become its customers. Many die each year because they can’t afford to buy the medications they need to treat their illnesses.
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- Health Care
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Gates Foundation Lures Biotech VC to Work on Global Health Startups
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has people with big Rolodexes that extend into high levels of government, philanthropy, public health, and Big Pharma. Now the organization has hired someone to open doors to biotech entrepreneurs and venture capitalists.
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- Health Care
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NCDs cost India equivalent to 12.5% of its GDP, says US-based study
India, world’s largest generic medicines exporter, still lacks assured free access to good quality generic medicines and the support is needed to use them to best effect for large section of its population, says a study by US-based pharmacy school.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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Why we’re heading for a global healthcare crunch – and how to avoid it
Designing healthcare around the commercial concept of value would improve services and prevent a financial crisis
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- Health Care
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- lending
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Swati Piramal: How to Make India a World Leader in Low-Cost Health Care
Bad regulations and price control are stifling pharma, but innovation in health care is blossoming with government support
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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- governance
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Malawi’s Health Care Subject Of Intense Worry For Country’s Poor
Fagnes Matunga lives about as far away as a Malawian can from the country’s capital city of Lilongwe. Her village of thatch-roof huts is perched on the summit of a windswept mountain. The dirt road that serves as the main thoroughfare doubles as a porous border between her native Malawi and neighboring Mozambique. Trucks that carry her meager crop of Irish potatoes to urban markets — and the ambulances that transport laboring women in urgent need of C-sections — travel hours to reach the paved highway.
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- Health Care
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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