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Viewpoint: If It Ain’t Broke, Don’t Fix It
In October of 2015, Universities Allied for Essential Medicines (UAEM) released an open letter with the title Make Medicines for People Not for Profit. The letter – now signed by a wide range of academics and researchers, including Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz – issues a call for a “global research and development (R&D) agreement to ensure access to affordable vaccines, medicines and life-saving technologies for all.”
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- Health Care
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- vaccines
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Gates: Foundation to Invest $5B in Africa Over Next 5 Years
Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates said Sunday his foundation will invest another $5 billion in Africa over the next five years. Gates delivered the Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture ahead of Mandela Day, when South Africans are encouraged to donate 67 minutes of their time to help others. Gates is also in South Africa to attend a global AIDS conference that starts Monday.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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More than half of the doctors in India not medically qualified: WHO
More than half of the doctors in India are not medically qualified, a report titled "HealthWorkforce in India" by the World Health Organisation (WHO) has claimed. According to the report, in rural India, only 18.8 percent of the allopathic doctors qualified. The report is based on the data taken from each district in the country based on Census 2001.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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All That Data: What Health Researchers Can Do With Pokemon GO
Nearly one in five Australians use an activity tracking device daily or nearly daily. Of the people who use activity trackers, three-quarters are prepared to share that data, on the proviso that it is anonymously used for health and medical research.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- South Asia
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Privacy of mobile money users threatened as Kenyan taxman chases revenue
Kenya has led the world in enabling the No.1 major mobile money ecosystem with over 90% of adults in East Africa’s largest economy transacting money through platform. While many other phone operators and governments around the world have looked on with envy as it has grown to nearly $30 billion a year in transactions, M-Pesa’s lobbyists have been fending off a more difficult adversary.
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- Uncategorized
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Latin America Zika Outbreak Should ‘Burn Out’ Within 3 Years, Scientists Say
A team of British experts in disease outbreaks believes that the Zika epidemic afflicting Latin America will end within three years. They based their estimate on modeling using available data on the outbreak, which has so far involved thousands of cases of Zika-linked birth defects, mainly in Brazil.
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- Health Care
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- Latin America
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SAP and ISB collaborate to jumpstart social enterprises
SAP and the Indian School of Business (ISB) are collaborating to nurture the social entrepreneurship ecosystem with relevance to national priorities. The ISB-SAP Social Enterprise Jumpstart will identify five social enterprise startups and provide training, mentorship and access to networks to accelerate their growth.
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- Education
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- South Asia
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Centre mulls over plan to stop ASHAs from distributing condoms
Faced with angry Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs) refusing to distribute repackaged condoms called Asha Nirodh given free under the national reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health, the Union health ministry is exploring other distribution options, which may include vending machines.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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- public health
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