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PPP can help Africa’s health future
The future of Africa's health sector lies in the bosom of Public- Private- Partnership (PPP) and there is no option, Dr khama Rogo, Head of the International Finance Cooperation (IFC) Health in Africa Initiative said Wednesday.
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- Education, Health Care
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Top 10 Global Health Issues to Watch in 2014
The past year has given us plenty of global health successes to celebrate.
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- Education, Health Care
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- nutrition
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Surgery Goes Global
Drafting a plan for universal access to surgical care
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- Education, Health Care
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Pearson announces joint venture secondary schooling investment with Ayala in the Philippines
Pearson is the world's leading learning company.
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- Education
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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GE Healthcare & IIT Madras ink 3-year R&D pact to accelerate innovation for a healthier India
GE Healthcare, the US$ 18 billion healthcare business of General Electric Company and Healthcare Technology Innovation Centre (HTIC), a multi-disciplinary R&D centre of IIT Chennai have entered into a three-year collaborative research and development agreement for innovating a range of disruptive and affordable healthcare solutions.
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- Education, Health Care
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Chagas Disease: Urgent Measures Are Needed
Global health topics are typically presented in the context of extreme poverty in sub-Saharan Africa or Asia. However, today approximately 100 million people in the Western Hemisphere also live on less than $2 per day. About 10 percent of these "bottom 100 million" currently live with a serious and life-threatening neglected disease known as Chagas disease or American trypanosomiasis.
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- Education, Health Care
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‘Micro-insurance Impacts Significantly on Social Indices’
The Micro-insurance Network, the International Labour Organisation’s (ILO’s) micro-insurance innovation facility, has said that micro-insurance has impacted positively on the standard of living of low income earners across the world.
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- Education, Impact Assessment
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The Global Shortage of Health Workers
Health workers are essential for health care. Without health workers there are no health systems, yet there is a critical global shortage of them, and it is the poorest countries that are most affected.
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- Education, Health Care
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa