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What the NHS can learn from innovative healthcare practices abroad
From clinical services to specialised care, there are many models of affordable healthcare.
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PEPFAR at 10: What’s next?
A leading global AIDS program lacks a clear long-term strategy to help countries build the capacity to tackle the epidemic themselves, an independent report prepared for U.S. Congress suggests.
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Rising vaccine prices mean fewer children immunized
Adding more children's vaccines to the recommended package should--in theory--save more lives. But rising prices may actually mean fewer children are vaccinated.
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Rwanda’s Historic Health Recovery: What the U.S. Might Learn
Over the last decade in Rwanda, deaths from HIV, TB, and malaria dropped by 80 percent, maternal mortality dropped by 60 percent, life expectancy doubled -- all at an average health care cost of $55 per person per year.
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Big Data, Better Global Health
Bill Gates, Margaret Chan, the Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO), and other experts and leaders gathered this month in Geneva for a very important meeting on a very unimportant-sounding subject: global disease estimates.
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Africa: Closing the Gap – Meet Aims to End Extreme Poverty
When 17-year-old Sona Traore represented the Child Protection Network of Liberia at a civil society event organized in conjunction with a three-day United Nations meeting in this capital city earlier this month, she knew she was not speaking for Liberian children alone.
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Q&A: Inovio CEO on DNA Vaccines
One area of biotechnology that has drawn a lot of attention in recent years is DNA vaccines.
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6 Innovations That Will Change Healthcare
When economists, data scientists and medical professionals team up, the result is often remarkable innovation.
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