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#WorldMalariaDay Opinion: We can beat malaria if we move faster
Vector control has been an important weapon in the fight against malaria. Indoor residual sprays and treated bed nets are now in use widely across Africa and Asia to kill mosquitoes and protect people. However, the Anopheles mosquito, the vector that transmits malaria to humans, is becoming increasingly resistant to pyrethroids, one of the most commonly used insecticides.
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- Health Care
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Drone Deliveries of Blood Could Transform Healthcare in Africa
“Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.” While those words have traditionally been the unofficial motto of the U.S. Postal Service, they may apply just as well to the world’s first drone delivery service operating at a national scale–in Rwanda. That only sounds like an odd place for such a service to take flight until you hear what these 22-lb. custom-built autonomous airplanes are delivering: blood.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Canadian Tech Companies Partner to Bring 3D Printed Prosthetics & Orthotics to Uganda
Many people in the world are fortunate enough to have little to no issues with their health. As you smack that alarm down in the morning, spring up and out, rushing to drive to work and engage in what sometimes seems like the overwhelming busy busy-ness of the day and week, it’s easy to take for granted how much more difficult your day, week, and life could be.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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M-Pesa Supports HIV Treatment in Lesotho
Vodacom Lesotho is using its mobile network and mobile money solutions to increase the number of HIV positive children and pregnant mothers identified and provided with treatment in the mountain kingdom.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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More Giant Rats On the Way. And That’s a Good Thing.
APOPO trains African giant pouched rats to sniff out tuberculosis (TB), a top infectious disease killer worldwide even though it’s curable and preventable. The program has proven successful in screening for TB in crowded prisons in Tanzania and Mozambique, and APOPO hopes to roll it out in at least six countries by 2020.
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- Health Care, Social Enterprise
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Google Search Now Provides Access to Basic Healthcare Information in India
Google’s latest move in India may help increase access to healthcare information among millions of people. The company added healthcare information to its knowledge graph in the U.S. last year, to help people easily find quick information in response to symptoms or concerns via its search engine, and now the feature is headed east to India.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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Four Trends in Global Health Care for the Poor
The Center for Health Market Innovations' annual review of its program database, featuring more than 1,500 programs working in 130 countries, reveals new research and innovative solutions emerging from the private sector – particularly in the areas of adolescent care, disaster response, the co-creation of solutions and reported results.
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- Health Care, Social Enterprise
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A New mHealth Device to Tackle Global Health
That global health is a puzzle that mobile health technologies can help to solve is not new. But it's always amazing to see entrepreneurs dream up new applications nonetheless.
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- Health Care, Technology