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Kenya: Major Price Cut for Rapid TB Test
The cost of a highly accurate, rapid diagnostic test for tuberculosis (TB) has been reduced by 40 percent under a new agreement between the US government, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and the health financing mechanism, UNITAID.
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- Health Care
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- public health
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Clever Packaging: Essential Medicine Rides Coke’s Distribution Into Remote Villages
Simon Berry is piggybacking on Coca-Cola’s distribution system to bring life-saving medicine to the places that need it most.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- public health
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Gates explores Ghana’s health progress
The freckled man with the rectangular glasses instantly recognisable to much of the world stood in the West African heat, staring at data that had nothing to do with selling software.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- public health
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New plan to ensure universal health care in Somalia
Every Somali citizen will have access to basic healthcare by 2016 if a new, government-led strategic plan achieves its aims.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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World food security and what young Africans can do about it
Leaders in sub-Saharan Africa, a region with the world’s fastest-growing and youngest population, seek to create more agriculture jobs.
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- Agriculture
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Mozambique leads from the front in battle against Aids
Mozambique is using new technology to improve diagnosis and treatment for people living with HIV.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- public health
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Tackling poverty with social enterprise
Despite the promising economic growth exhibited by African nations in the last decade, the spectre of food poverty still looms large.
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- Uncategorized
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Connecting the dots between vaccines and hunger
Comic Relief started as a response to the 1984 famine in Ethiopia. Any solution to the persisting problem of global hunger must factor in immunization.
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- Health Care
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- public health
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