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Big Pharma, NGO Square the Circle on Access to Vaccines
One would expect a multinational pharmaceutical group and a leading humanitarian NGO to hold radically opposed views on access to vaccines.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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The Upside of Ebola May Be Vaccines
They don’t have the name recognition of Ebola, but lymphatic filariasis and schistosomiasis are killer viruses in developing countries. Big killers. Indeed, combined with other illnesses like malaria and pneumonia, infectious diseases account for 1 in 7 deaths worldwide. But good luck trying to convince drug companies to put resources and funds into developing vaccines for most of them: Diseases in poor countries don’t make for lucrative markets.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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As Overseas Money Dries Up, Indonesia Develops Its Own Vaccines
Indonesia is developing its own vaccines to fight infectious diseases because funds from the EU and other development agencies to its health sector are drying up. EurActiv reports from Indonesia.
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- Asia Pacific
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Zimbabwe: WHO Approves Ebola Testing Kit
In a major breakthrough, the World Health Organisation (WHO) on Friday announced that it had approved a rapid diagnostic test kit for Ebola that can provide results in 15 minutes and correctly identify 92% of patients infected by the disease.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Disease-fighting Data: In Sierra Leone, tracking Ebola’s economic impact
Bad information has been problematic during the Ebola outbreak. As a result, IPA has been collecting data on the economic impacts of the crisis and is working on piloting and evaluating an electronic contact-tracing system that could substantially improve efficiency and reduce Ebola transmission rates.
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- Health Care, Impact Assessment
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In Treating Ebola, Even Using a Stethoscope Becomes a Challenge
Doctors treating Ebola patients while wearing “the full spacesuit” — protective gear, including waterproof hoods — are struggling with a clinician’s dilemma: what to do if they can’t use one of the oldest, most basic tools in medicine — a stethoscope.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Japanese Foundation Joins the Public Health Grand Challenge Bandwagon
A Japanese foundation will try to discover innovative approaches to neglected infectious diseases with a Grand Challenge.
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- Health Care
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- Asia Pacific
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Only 40% of Ebola Donations Have Reached the Affected Countries
The latest study shows the gap between what the world pledged to give, and what the affected countries really got.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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