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Six Ways MarketBookshelf.com Can Improve How We Share Global Health Market Research
Preventing research duplication in the global health arena is critically important – but it's also beyond challenging, given the large number of organizations working at country, regional and global levels. It's with these challenges in mind that organizers have launched MarketBookshelf.com, a new, one-stop platform for sharing global health market literature. The site aims to consolidate market literature across donors, sectors and health areas to improve – and ultimately change – how the global health market community disseminates its research.
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- Health Care, Technology
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Gates Foundation, Abu Dhabi Pair to Fight Forgotten Diseases
The $100 million fund will seek to eliminate river blindness, or onchocerciasis, and lymphatic filariasis, which leads to a condition known as elephantiasis, from countries where they circulate in Africa and the Middle East. The Crown Prince will donate $20 million and the Gates Foundation 20% of the total amount raised to the new "Reaching the Last Mile Fund," with a plan to raise the remaining $60 million from others in the region and beyond.
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- Health Care
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- North Africa & Near East
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A Global State of Mind
Mental illness knows no borders. One relentless Indian psychiatrist pushes to make treatment a standard around the world.
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- Health Care
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A Formula for Health Equity
What could an economically advanced country like the United States possibly learn from the health-care success of a tiny, impoverished African country like Rwanda? Two things: how to broaden access and improve health outcomes while sharply reducing the cost of care.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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To Fight Global Threat of Antibiotic Resistance, WHO Issues First-Ever Guidelines to Curb Use
To address the major and growing global threat that stems from rampant overuse and misuse of antibiotics in agriculture, the World Health Organization (WHO) this week issued its first-ever formal guidelines instructing farmers to stop using so many antimicrobials in healthy livestock.
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- Health Care
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- food, global health, healthcare, public health, regulations, WHO
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Press release: Aisling Capital Closes $280 Million Fund to Improve Global Health
Aisling Capital will assist companies developing therapeutics to complete their clinical studies, navigate approval and ultimately reach commercialization. Portfolio companies gain access to Aisling Capital's strategic counsel and deep experience in both financial and medical fields, along with its unmatched network that extends from regulatory organizations to leading pharmaceutical companies and financial institutions.
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- Health Care, Investing
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Experts concerned that HIV, AIDS may be poised for a comeback
"Current trends in HIV drug resistance are very concerning," said Dr. Chris Beyrer, lead author of an overview on the state of global HIV drug resistance.
"Resistance levels have been found to be highest in ART-exposed infants and children," he added. "Which is a real concern, since children are already among the least-treated age group in many developing countries."- Categories
- Health Care
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One in Six Global Deaths Linked to Pollution
“Pollution is much more than an environmental challenge—it is a profound and pervasive threat that affects many aspects of human health and wellbeing,” Philip Landrigan, a global health researcher with the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, says in a statement. The new report emerged from a commission Landrigan co-led for the medical journal The Lancet.
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- Environment, Health Care
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