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With end of TRIPS, aid groups see access to cheap drugs closing
Civil society groups are rallying efforts to extend a deal that is seen to give the world’s poorest countries access to cheap drugs.
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Bill Gates and Michael Bloomberg: Our Plan to Eradicate Polio
More than three decades ago, each of us started a technology company based on a big idea—and each company found success based on a culture of innovation and accountability.
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India Bends Curve on Child Health
India is making positive strides in reducing child mortality through new policies and ambitious programs, but preventing the deaths of millions of children remains one of the country’s greatest challenges.
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- South Asia
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GlaxoSmithKline unit joins patent pool for AIDS drugs
GlaxoSmithKline's HIV/AIDS drugs business is to share intellectual property rights on children's medicine in a patent pool designed to make treatments more widely available in poor countries.
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What the NHS can learn from innovative healthcare practices abroad
From clinical services to specialised care, there are many models of affordable healthcare.
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- Europe & Eurasia
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U.S. Cuts to Global Health Budget “Mass-scale Malpractice”
Public health workers, activists and policymakers are stepping up a last-minute campaign to highlight the global health impact of historic, sweeping cuts to the U.S. federal budget due to go into effect Friday if Congress doesn’t act.
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Rwanda’s Historic Health Recovery: What the U.S. Might Learn
Over the last decade in Rwanda, deaths from HIV, TB, and malaria dropped by 80 percent, maternal mortality dropped by 60 percent, life expectancy doubled -- all at an average health care cost of $55 per person per year.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Big Data, Better Global Health
Bill Gates, Margaret Chan, the Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO), and other experts and leaders gathered this month in Geneva for a very important meeting on a very unimportant-sounding subject: global disease estimates.
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