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Time for New Revolutions in Global Health Care
The introductions of anesthesia, sterilization and academy-trained surgeons were the three revolutions of modern surgery, but this history reflects progress that has prioritized a small portion of the world's population.
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- Health Care
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- public health
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Blue chip companies join forces with UN to provide better healthcare
The campaign aims to train, equip and deploy one million community health workers by the end of 2015.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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How a restaurant chain pioneered a social impact bond to fight malaria
Nando’s, the restaurant chain popular for its peri-peri chicken, recently announced a partnership creating the Mozambique Malaria Performance Bond, a development impact bond to fund malaria reduction efforts in Mozambique.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Mexico nears junk food tax, sets anti-obesity plan
Mexico's congress approved a new tax on junk food Thursday as the government announced a campaign to fight obesity in a country with one of the world's highest rates of overweight people.
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- Latin America
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- nutrition, public health
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First Woman to Lead Global Health Council
The Global Health Council, a network of leading organizations dedicated to saving lives and improving the health of the world's poorest people, has named a veteran of UNICEF, USAID, and other global health organizations as its new executive director.
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- Education, Health Care
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Samsung Electronics push medical equipment for remote areas
With the shortage of skilled medical personnel and resources in outlying rural areas of Africa, Samsung Electronics says its diagnostic medical technology solutions could be the ideal healthcare for impoverished rural areas.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Strategic Alliance Formed to Fight Counterfeit Drugs in Ghana
A new partnership will strengthen human resource capacity to conduct quality control testing to detect substandard and counterfeit medications in Africa.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- vaccines
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GlaxoSmithKline and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation ink new partnership to accelerate research into vaccines
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) have launched a new joint initiative that will endeavor to make vaccines more resistant to heat, thus reducing the need for refrigeration.
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- Health Care
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- public health