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Safaricom has announced that it will be partnering with real estate developers in an initiative that will see the launch of new smart and internet ready addresses in different parts of the country.
Safaricom Launches Internet-Ready Commercial and Residential Addresses InitiativeBlog Post
When TB treatment providers are already well connected to the broader health system, and can be reached as a group, the task of engagement is more manageable. But that is the exception and not the rule in global health care markets. The PPM intermediary organization is the beginning of a consolidating force in an otherwise fragmented health care system.
From Pilots to Systems (Part 2): Achieving systemic and scalable private sector engagement in tuberculosis care and prevention in AsiaNews
Imagine a three-year-old child suffering from severe pneumonia, which leads to insufficient oxygen in the blood, at a primary health centre (PHC) in a remote village. The centre has no reliable supply of oxygen. So what does one do? How about a low-cost method for oxygen production in rural areas?
Affordable Healthcare Technologies for Rural IndiaNews
Sanofi’s (SNY - Analyst Report) newly appointed Chief Executive Officer Olivier Brandicourt, after just three months of being at the helm, has made a big move by declaring plans to reorganize its business. Brandicourt intends to restructure the seven existing business units into five global business units. Along with its existing vaccines unit – Sanofi Pasteur – and the animal health business – Merial, the company plans to create three new global business units, namely, General Medicines & Emerging Markets, Specialty Care and Diabetes & Cardiovascular.
Sanofi Unveils Restructuring Plans, Prunes Business UnitsBlog Post
Public-private mix (PPM) is really a form of behavior change for both sides: for the public sector in their approach to engaging the private sector, and for the private sector in changing their practices. At its core, PPM is trying to replace low-quality, inefficient and potentially expensive health care provision with rapid, affordable and correct diagnosis and treatment, and monitoring to ensure success.
From Pilots to Systems (Part 1): Achieving systemic and scalable private sector engagement in tuberculosis care and prevention in AsiaNews
The AIDS targets of MDG 6—halting and reversing the spread of HIV—have been achieved and exceeded, according to a new report released today by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS). New HIV infections have fallen by 35% and AIDS-related deaths by 41%. The global response to HIV has averted 30 million new HIV infections and nearly 8 million (7.8 million) AIDS-related deaths since 2000, when the MDGs were set.
Press Release: UNAIDS Announces Goal of 15M People on Life-Saving HIV Treatment by 2015 Has Been Met 9 Months EarlyNews
It's a showpiece drug that has the potential to end a disease that kills half a million African children a year. Yet even before it wins a license, the world's first malaria vaccine has lost some of its sheen.
Caveats, Costs and Complexities Shadow First Malaria VaccineBlog Post
The majority of health care facilities in sub-Saharan Africa do not have reliable access to electricity. If they have access at all, these facilities face weekly or even daily outages that make putting a patient’s consciousness during surgery in the hands of an electricity-dependent anesthesia machine a dangerous proposition.
An Essential for Essential Surgery: Low-resource optimized anesthesia machines needed to help fill global need
