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USAID Head to Resign Amid Coronavirus Pandemic
The head of the United States Agency for International Development will step down next month from the nation’s premier arm for humanitarian aid in the midst of a snowballing pandemic.
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Coronavirus is Shining a Light on America’s Lack of Paid Sick Leave: Here’s How Savings Can Help
As the coronavirus pandemic unfolds, public health authorities are encouraging people to stay home if they're sick. But for many U.S. workers – especially those with lower-incomes and gig economy jobs – taking a sick day is unpaid, so staying home has serious financial implications. Timothy Flacke at Commonwealth highlights this challenge, and discusses how innovative savings solutions can help.
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- Coronavirus, Finance, Health Care
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A Senegalese Innovation Lab Is Helping the UK Develop a 10-Minute Coronavirus Test Kit
If successfully developed and validated, a much faster way to test and diagnose Covid-19 could prove critical as the virus continues to spread globally with confirmed cases now surpassing 120,000.
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- Coronavirus, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Gates Foundation, Wellcome, Mastercard launch $125M COVID-19 Therapeutics Accelerator
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is teaming up with Wellcome and Mastercard to form the COVID-19 Therapeutics Accelerator, a $125 million effort to help find potential treatments for the coronavirus epidemic and future threats.
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- Coronavirus, Health Care
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Fighting TB With Phone Calls: A Project That Reminded Patients to Take Their Medicine
The 99DOTS project was withdrawn from hospitals after only two years, in a move that forced patients to revert to the previous method, which was largely considered inconvenient and unreliable.
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- Health Care, Technology
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Press Release: FDA Approves New Treatment for Highly Drug-Resistant Forms of Tuberculosis
"FDA approval of this treatment represents a victory for the people suffering from these highly drug-resistant forms of the world's deadliest infectious disease," said Mel Spigelman, MD, president and CEO of TB Alliance. "The associated novel regimen will hopefully provide a shorter, more easily manageable and highly efficacious treatment for those in need."
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The New Malaria Vaccine Program for African Children Is Promising but Still Quite Limited
The RTS,S vaccine does not provide lifelong protection against malaria, only four in 10 children within a specific age group will benefit.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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More Than 20 Million Children Worldwide Miss Out on the Measles Vaccine Annually, UNICEF Reports
UNICEF said in a report that 169 million children did not receive the first dose of the measles vaccine between 2010 and 2017, a number that equates with about 21.1 million kids annually.
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- Health Care