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Huge Opportunities Await Indian Health Investors in Africa
In 2012, Africa accounted for almost a quarter of India's drug exports.
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- South Asia
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Health in Urban Slums Depends on Better Local Data
Data collection in urban areas should also be interdisciplinary; involving epidemiologists, toxicologists, urban planners and environmental scientists among other experts, according to Sotiris Vardoulakis, air pollution and climate change group leader at the UK government agency Public Health England.
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Bottom Of The Pyramid Overspending On Mobile Services in Africa
Expert at a World Consumer Rights Day event in Nairobi said on Friday poor African’s are spending too much on mobile phone services to the extent of foregoing basic needs, ITWeb Africa reported.
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- Education, Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Anti-Science Environmentalists Ban ‘Neonic’ Insecticides, Imperiling Global Health
Some of history’s greatest advances in public health – especially in regions plagued by insect borne diseases – have come from the judicious use of pesticides to kill or repel the insect vector before it can infect human populations. Because the market for public health pesticides is relatively small, however, most of these vital chemistries were developed for larger agricultural uses. Unfortunately, that source of new products is increasingly under threat from shortsighted environmentalism and the European embrace of “precautionary” regulation.
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- Education, Health Care
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New ITU standard enables health data exchange
Following calls for increased global coordination of standards enabling e-health, ITU has offered first stage approval to an important specification enabling an exchange of multimedia health data between a health provider, a controlling function and patient.
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NGOs Launch New Tool to Map Water and Sanitation in Kenya’s Largest Slum
With an estimated 1.2-million residents, Kibera is Africa’s second largest and one of the biggest slums in the world with some of the poorest living conditions
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Improving Global Health, One Text at a Time
AMREF Kenya receives matching grant for mHealth Project
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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US Provides $40 Million to Tackle Infectious Diseases
Within five years, the CDC aims to help 30 at-risk nations cope with the “perfect storm of vulnerability”, Tom Frieden, the centre’s director, said during a press briefing preceding the announcement.
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- Health Care