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Big Pharma in Africa: Weighing corporate citizenship and the bottom line
In the early 2000s, pharmaceutical companies were high on activists’ hit lists. Today, the discourse seems merrier.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- public health
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Pharmacovigilance Reporting Goes Digital in Kenya
Monitoring and reporting of adverse drug reactions (ADRs) and poor-quality human medicines has gone digital in Kenya.
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- Health Care, Impact Assessment
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How one social enterprise is leading the fight against malaria
Living Goods, a social enterprise based in San Francisco, has built a network of door-to-door salespeople in Uganda.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- public health
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Toxic waste sites detrimental to health in India: research
Toxic waste sites in India with elevated levels of lead and chromium are causing disease, disability and even death, leading to loss of healthy years of life among people, according to a new research.
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- Health Care
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- public health, waste
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How solar panels are leading the fight against malaria
Kenyan island aims to become free of the disease thanks to solar-powered, insecticide-free mosquito traps
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- Energy, Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- public health, solar
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We’re Not Prepared For China’s Deadly Bird Flu
In Asia, more than 120 people have been sickened, and 23 are dead, from a potent strain of bird flu that has the frightening markings of a potential pandemic strain.
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- Health Care
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- Asia Pacific
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6 Canadian game-changing ideas for global health care
A Ziploc bag filled with $5 worth of tools to save newborn babies’ lives in third world countries.
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- Health Care
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- public health
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Entrepreneurs say the FDA is killing medical innovation
Chandra Duggirala, maker of an experimental device for type two diabetes, is on the verge of giving up.
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- Health Care
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- public health
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