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Seattle nonprofit to battle cancer in Africa with help from biotech industry
Cancer now kills more than 600,000 people on the African continent each year, 50 percent more than malaria, which has traditionally been one of the biggest public health concerns in Africa.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Going for Goals: How to innovate on health sector financing
Achieving this goal — and indeed all of the SDGs by 2030 — requires the cooperation of governments, the private sector and nonprofit actors across the globe. They will also need considerable resources, which is why finding innovative and sustainable financing mechanisms will be critical to their success or failure.
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- Health Care
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German pharma giant Bayer Targets South African Startups to Create Digital Healthcare Solutions
The pharma company is bringing to South Africa its successful Granst4Apps Programme, which aims to bring promising startups under its wing as part of a global web of startup initiatives.
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- Health Care
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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How Dubai Is Turning Into A Smart City ‘Test Bed’ For Global Digital Health Entrepreneurs
With considerable wealth, the country -- and Dubai in particular -- has technologically leapfrogged to implement the most modern healthcare technology available. As the UAE establishes its development agenda and enables a new era for healthcare, it has an opportunity to create a new paradigm to structure the way healthcare is conceived founded on synergies between technology and data, and a commitment to create better patient solutions.
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- Health Care
- Region
- North Africa & Near East
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Climbing India’s Technology Stack: As the Fintech Revolution Extends to Health Care, Will Emerging Markets Be Ready?
The use of technology stacks has been a profoundly important breakthrough for social and financial inclusion in India, and it also opens up many opportunities to transform health care for the poorest residents there. But as these tech-based solutions proliferate in other low and middle-income countries, writes David Butz, the health care industry must be prepared for the massive disruptions they're likely to bring.
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- Uncategorized
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Sisu Global Health wins $25,000 at GE-backed competition
CEO Carolyn Yarina states that funding received from competition will provide crucial resources for commercialization of new blood recycling device.
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- Health Care, Technology
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Neglected tropical diseases: Funding the next stage of the fight
Delegates (at the recent NTDs Summit in Geneva, Switzerland) highlighted that while NTDs are considered one of the best buys in public health, they continue to be underfunded, and remain largely dependent on donors.
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- Health Care
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WHO to help bring cheap biosimilar cancer drugs to poor
The World Health Organization (WHO) is to launch a pilot project this year to assess cheap copies of expensive biotech cancer drugs in a bid to make such medicines more widely available in poorer countries.
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- Health Care
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