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GE Healthcare, CTSI to develop cancer care network
GE Healthcare, a unit of General Electric Company, on Tuesday announced a partnership with Cancer Treatment Services International (CTSI) to develop a network of 25 cancer care centres in India. Through five years, the two companies will together invest $120 million (Rs 720 crore) to establish these centres, through a hub-and-spoke model.
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- Health Care
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Risky Business – Is China Wavering in Africa?
Last month, officials from the Chinese Development Bank arrived in Ghana to re-negotiate a $3 billion oil-backed infrastructure deal.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Home Financiers Strike Deal for Bottom of the Pyramid in Kenya
“Over the years, the country has accumulated a housing deficit of over three million, which has led to demand for housing exceeding supply and proliferation of slums. Now we are telling people to stop renting houses and move to their own homes.”
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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US, 26 countries launch effort to fight outbreaks
The U.S. and 26 other countries began a new effort Thursday to prevent and fight outbreaks of dangerous infectious diseases before they spread around the globe.
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- Health Care
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CDC health projects improve disease detection and control
The US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) global health security (GHS) projects on early disease detection, response and prevention in Uganda and Vietnam have resulted in improvements in those areas.
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- Education, Health Care, Technology
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Opinion: A Wealthier Africa Will Depend on Health Care
The BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India, and China) have long been the focus of emerging-market investors. But it is in Africa, a region with the world’s second-fastest growth, where the next big business opportunities lie.
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- Education, Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Power imbalances between nations ‘undermining global health efforts’
A joint commission from The Lancet and the University of Oslo in Norway finds that the imbalance of political power between nations is failing to protect the public's health, and calls for urgent reform in global decision making.
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- Education, Health Care
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Philips joins AMREF for Africa health
Royal Philips and the African Medical and Research Foundation (AMREF) announced that they will work closely together in an innovative shared-value partnership model designed to bring about a structural improvement in the healthcare infrastructure and healthcare provision on the African continent.
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- Education, Health Care