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India to checkmate cross-border polio threat
While India gears up to receive WHO certification, Pakistan is polio endemic with 59 cases reported this year, say delegates at a brainstorming Polio Plus orientation and planning workshop in Madurai.
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- South Asia
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Africans once protected against malaria face new risk
While virus P. vivax causes some 65 percent of malaria in India and is endemic in many other parts of the world, much of Africa has remained immune.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Global healthcare system needs an overhaul
Absence of adequate regulatory controls, treatment guidelines, and patient awareness have led to a global surge in antibiotic resistance, says a team of experts; two of them are from India.
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- Health Care
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Training Rural Liberians To Save Lives
Last Mile Health (known in Liberia as Tiyatien Health) aims to bring quality health care and jobs to remote regions of Liberia.
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- Education, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Apollo inks MoU with CSC to offer healthcare via telemedicine
Apollo Hospitals Group today signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Common Services Centers (CSC) Scheme of the government to deliver healthcare using telemedicine platform to patients in rural areas.
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- Health Care, Technology
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Winners of $1 million award to support lifesaving innovations announced
A simple low-cost device that helps newborn babies to breathe and has the potential to transform the life chances for thousands of African babies has been awarded the highest fund in the first GSK and Save the Children $1million Healthcare Innovation Award.
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- Health Care
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Mobile Clinics Bring Health Care to the Countryside in South Africa
South Africa has a serious lack of healthcare facilities in rural areas but some new solar-powered mobile clinics are changing that.
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- Energy, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- reproductive health, solar
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Integrated medicine is future
The international conference on Global Health Futures reiterated that integrated medicine is the way forward in days to come.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia