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GAVI raises $152 million for vaccinations with private sector partnerships
The GAVI Alliance announced on Friday that it secured $152 million to immunize children against disease using private sector partnerships, a unique funding mechanism leveraging cash and expertise from corporations and foundations.
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GE’s Immelt Urges More Private Investment in Africa Health Care
General Electric Co. Chief Executive Officer Jeffrey Immelt urged private investors to provide more funding for health care in African nations, where government-run services are overstretched.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Philippines Works to Freeze Spread of Childhood Diseases
On Wednesday the Philippine government’s Research Institute for Tropical Medicine, or RITM, will get new walk-in freezer, which will be used to store vaccines for various viruses, measles included.
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- Asia Pacific
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Rx for Global Health: New drug-diagnostic combos are emerging, but are our market structures ready to support them?
Traditional ways of viewing diagnostics and drugs separately are starting to blur, especially in the developed world. But new business and partnership models are needed if these boundary-spanning new technologies are to reach low-income countries.
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Pushing the Boundaries of Health Care Localization: Feb. 5 TweetChat to explore the increasingly disruptive role of technology in serving low-income populations
Is it true that global solutions cannot be created to tackle local problems? Not necessarily.
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- Health Care, Technology
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Political leaders join experts on health to call for innovation in sustainable funding
Global health experts and political leaders meeting in Davos, Switzerland on the side lines of the World Economic Forum, have concluded that finding innovative ways to optimize funding for health programmes in developing and middle-income countries will be key to development and economic growth.
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- Health Care
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mHealth Alliance to move head office to South Africa
The move is to scale up mHealth projects at country levels in the global South.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Healthcare tech is hot for venture capitalists
From wearables like wristbands that keep track of your physical activity to wireless weighing machines that help you track your weight fluctuations, technology is getting into healthcare with an eye firmly on the consumer.
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- Health Care, Investing