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Financial firms turn focus on people living with HIV/AIDS
Previously, people used to equate HIV/AIDS to a death sentence.
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- Health Care
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Road deaths, cancer and diabetes becoming Africa’s hidden epidemics
Urbanisation accelerating rise in health problems, while more cars on the road are pushing up accident rates, says World Bank
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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‘Two-thirds of injections in India unsafe’
With an aim to protect patients from infections caused by use of unsafe injections, Indian Academy of Paediatrics (IAP) launched Safe Injection Environment programme in the city on Sunday, where they talked about the importance of safe injection practices.
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- Health Care
- Region
- South Asia
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East Africa: The Superfood With the Potential to Save Hundreds and Thousands of Children’s Lives
Imagine a food that is free, nutritious and has the potential to save thousands of children's lives.
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- Health Care
- Region
- North Africa & Near East
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Open development and social impact bonds: rethinking healthcare delivery
By incentivising investment through payment on results, and by making information open, local entrepreneurs can fill the gaps and help deliver much needed services
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- Health Care, Impact Assessment
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- impact bonds
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Malaria resurgence in Africa has health authorities scrambling for new weapons
Could the much-maligned DDT become the new pesticide of choice?
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Can collaboration resuscitate global health funding?
As support for global health projects declines, governments, NGOs and the private sector will have to be creative and commit to collaboration
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- Health Care
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- governance, lending
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Colombia is world’s first country to wipe out river blindness – WHO
Colombia has become the first country in the world to eradicate river blindness through the distribution of an anti-parasitic drug in affected parts of the South American nation and a sustained health education campaign in local communities, the World Health Organization (WHO) has said.
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- Health Care
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- Latin America