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Success in the Fight against Neglected Diseases
It’s been a year since the World Health Organization released a road map to stop the spread of neglected tropical diseases by 2020. Based on a newly released report, there’s reason to be optimistic.
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Innovation to fund global health
Millions of lives are saved today in developing countries because of bold, innovative financing arrangements over last 10 years. These financing mechanisms are good examples of private sector partnership with public sector for common good.These financing initiatives have pooled large public sector funding with private sector resources, thus allowing tax payers funds to have much larger impact than would otherwise be possible. Some of the examples are given below.
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The Financial Transaction Tax: Globalization’s Payback Time for the World’s Poor
How the last United Nations General Assembly offered real hope for those that wish to put an end to global poverty.
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S’pore firm and Mongolian government create ‘Medical Silk Road’ to improve healthcare with mobile technology
The Mongolian government has partnered with Singapore’s Borderless Healthcare Group to improve rural healthcare through the use of mobile technology. The initiative is dubbed the ‘Medical Silk Road’.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Asia Pacific
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Providing remote medical care in inaccessible areas
Future of Indian medicare is Telemedicine, opined experts in the field, which is evolving into a promising technological intervention to provide quick and super-specialty medical care to even people residing in a remote place.
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- South Asia
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Liberia: Ellen Launches Reports On Women’s Health, World Malaria 2012
President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf has called on all health partners to identify ways in which, working together, Africa can continue to ensure that the progress made is maintained and enhanced regarding women's health and in combating malaria in the African region.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Drug-Resistant Malaria Flares As Funding For Research Tapers
Global health experts worry that a new breed of malaria that has arisen in South Asia could reverse trends in the fight against the disease, since it has proven resistant to the drugs usually used to treat malaria infections.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa