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Mental health needs realistic treatment – or we face decades of wasted time
NGOs can play a decisive role in ensuring that those with mental health problems aren't misdiagnosed, and receive treatment that takes cultural and educational barriers into account
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- Health Care
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- waste
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Kenya’s Mothers Shun Free Maternity Health Care
It has been a month since the Kenyan government waived the maternity fee at public health facilities, but Millicent Awino is still one of the many expectant mothers in favour of a home birth.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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PEPFAR: Millions treated, but better info management needed
Over the past decade, the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief has saved millions of lives, but a watchdog claims it could help even more if information were managed better.
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- Health Care, Impact Assessment
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Innovative finance can boost global health R&D
Whatever the exact numbers, few would dispute that only a small fraction of health R&D funding targets conditions in poor countries that account for most of the global disease burden.
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- Health Care
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One man’s innovation turns Ugandan hospitals hi-tech
Have you ever wanted to know how many doctor visits you make per year or what your annual expenditure on health care is?
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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mHealth for Chronic Diseases in Developing Countries
Non communicable diseases (heart diseases, strokes, cancers, diabetes, and chronic lung disease) cause an estimated 36 million deaths every year, including 9 million people dying prematurely before the age of 60.
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- Health Care
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Indian drug makers shifting R&D operations to South East Asia: Survey
AHMEDABAD: Red tapism is pushing India's Rs 1,00,000 crore pharmaceutical industry in peril as most of the pharma companies shifting research and development (R&D) operations and clinical trials to South-East Asian countries of Cambodia, Korea, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam and others, according to a just concluded survey by ASSOCHAM.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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Changing the perspective: from disease control to healthy people
Never before has the health situation improved so fast across the world. At the same time, exposures to major health risks rise just as quickly and dramatically.
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- Health Care
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