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Big tobacco snubs health warning law in Indonesia
Tobacco companies have largely snubbed an Indonesian law requiring them to put graphic health warnings on all cigarette packs, another setback for anti-smoking efforts in a country that's home to the world's highest rate of male smokers and a wild, wild west of advertising.
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- Education, Health Care
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- South Asia
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Inaugural CAMTech India ‘Jugaad-a-thon’ launched
Kolkata, June 24 (IBNS): CAMTech India, a new United States Agency for International Development (USAID/India) funded public-private partnership to accelerate medical technology innovation for reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health (RMNCH) in India, announced its first medical technology hack-a-thon in Bangalore on July 18-20.
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- South Asia
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Tackling healthcare challenges through digital innovations
It is business as usual at the Comprehensive Care Centre (CCC) at Kenyatta National Hospital in Nairobi. Patients move in and out of different rooms as medical specialists address various concerns.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Radio Station Reaches Remote Areas Through Cell Phones
Unilever in India launches a marketing initiative that provides entertainment and ads in areas unreachable by other media.
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- Health Care, Technology
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Serenus Biotherapeutics sees large potential market in Africa
San Francisco's newest pharmaceutical company is staking its future on a distant continent: Africa.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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High cost of vaccines complicates crisis response in South Sudan
Aid group Médecins Sans Frontières says thousands of children have missed critical vaccines because pharmaceutical companies won’t budge on price
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon Served in Haiti Cholera Lawsuit
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Lawyers for victims of a cholera epidemic in Haiti said on Friday they have served United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon with a complaint in New York as part of a federal lawsuit seeking compensation for the outbreak, which they blame on U.N. peacekeepers.
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We’re Inventing a New Way to Diagnose Diabetes in the Poorest Parts of the World
Imagine a disease that cripples and blinds the infected after a few short years. A disease that affects mostly young adults and has no affordable treatment available. This disease is a reality for urban slum citizens, in the form of type-2 diabetes mellitus.
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- Health Care