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Netcare Disputes Oxfam Report Over Hospital Costs in Lesotho
Netcare Ltd. (NTC), a private hospital operator in South Africa and the U.K., said its venture in Lesotho was a “success story” after an Oxfam report alleged it was draining the country’s health resources.
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Why global health should embrace the global precariat
It’s not often you come across a truly visionary op-ed but in my opinion last week’s viewpoint from Guy Standing in The Guardian, ‘Cheer up – a renewed left is coming’, fits the bill. In the piece, Standing says the precariat is today’s (emerging) mass class, and like the proletariat in the 19th and part of the 20th century, it will define a new progressive agenda for this age. Not all the examples he gives of “precariat uprisings” in countries around the globe are convincing, and not everybody shares his analysis, obviously, but the man has a point.
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Global Healthcare Donations are Increasing
The neediest nations are getting more financial support for healthcare, while those nations that are slightly better off could be losing out in donations, a University of Washington study says.
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OPINION: Grand Convergence in Global Health is Realizable
What it will take is a co-ordinated, future-oriented investment strategy.
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In Global Health, Abortion Bears the Scarlet A
At the Kamazu Central Hospital in Lilongwe, Malawi, Dr. Grace Chiudzu, the head of the maternity ward, ticks off the most common issues her patients face: “One is bleeding, second is infections, third is abortion complications.”
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Postal bank test awaits new government in India
he high profile spat between the Reserve Bank of India and the finance ministry over converting India’s loss-making 1.54 lakh post offices under India Post into a bank is likely to be one of the challenging issues that the next government will have to handle.
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Mor panel’s financial inclusion report may be put on back burner in India
The Union finance ministry and the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) have raised questions on viability and implementation of the recommendations made in the Nachiket Mor committee's report. The panel had, among other things, suggested a new banking structure to foster financial inclusion.
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Development Assistance For Global Health: Is The Funding Revolution Over?
In many ways, the last twenty years have been somewhat of a “revolution” in global health, as marked by rising attention, growing funding, and the creation of new, large scale initiatives to address global health challenges in low and middle income countries.
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