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Agency ready to provide telemedicine in Nigeria
The Nigerian Communication Satellite Limited (NIGCOMSAT) is ready to provide telemedicine services to improve the health status of Nigerians.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Conference on adapting Indian innovations in health
At a time when the western world is going through a crisis of sorts in the health care sector, a conference at the University of Oxford will explore adapting Indian innovations for better health services across the world.
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- Environment, Health Care
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- South Asia
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Bill Gates Can’t Build a Toilet
IN addition to eradicating polio in India and starting the personal computer revolution, the Seattle Superman of our age has managed to make going to the bathroom a cause célèbre. Five years ago, if I’d told people I worked on toilets, they would have surely assumed I was a plumber. Now, they exclaim: “Oh! Isn’t Bill Gates into that?”
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- Health Care
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EU seeks ways to make vaccines resistant to hot weather
Half of the vaccines sent to developing countries are lost as they deteriorate during transportation, but a new EU-sponsored project may solve the problem.
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- Health Care
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Africa: Technology Meets Health and Spurs Invention
Young African entrepreneurs are taking giant steps forward in addressing some of the continent's most pressing health issues.
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- Health Care
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World’s First Heath Conference on Social Marketing and Franchising begins Dec 3
The Government is keen to explore the potential of social marketing (SM) and social franchising (SF) as effective tools to reach out to the rural population and scale up healthcare delivery under its flagship programmes, said Ms Anuradha Gupta, Additional Secretary of Health and Mission Director of National Rural Health Mission.
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Debunking Myths About Products for Africa: Zyomyx develops test for HIV/AIDS treatment with service-free accessory
Zyomyx, a for-profit Silicon Valley biotech firm,has developed a point-of-care CD4 test for HIV/AIDS treatment in Africa that delivers results in less than 10 minutes and will cost less than (U.S.) $10 per test.
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Infosys to help Dutch community on health project
Indian IT bellwether Infosys will partner with Commit, a public-private research community in the Netherlands, for a sensor-based engagement for an improved health project, the company said.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia