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Canada gives $10 million to health innovations
More than 100 projects spanning the globe — including a number from South-East Asia — will share CAN$10.9 million (US$10.7 million) worth of funding from the Canadian government to pursue novel and cost-effective innovations in disease treatment.
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Source code: PharmaSecure goes mobile in battle against fake drugs
An initiative allowing the provenance of medicines to be verified using mobile technology is taking aim at the illegal drug trade.
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- South Asia
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Cancer Vaccines Get a Price Cut in Poor Nations
The two companies that make vaccines against cervical cancer announced Thursday that they would cut their prices to the world’s poorest countries below $5 per dose.
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Unhealthy Hospitals
The future of Afghanistan begins at the end of next year, after U.S. combat troops depart and Afghan forces take over for keeps.
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- North Africa & Near East
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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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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- public health
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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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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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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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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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