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Experts Say: India and Africa Should Form Working Group on Healthcare
ndia and the African countries should mull forming a working group to explore healthcare cooperation, stakeholders and experts said on Monday.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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10,000 Women’s Perspectives on Non-Communicable Diseases – A New Global Survey
Clinton Global Initiative Commitment to Action Explores Impact of NCDs on Women
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- Education, Health Care
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NexThought Monday – Choosing Your End-Game : Alternatives to the fund-raising merry-go-round for impact-driven nonprofits
Nonprofits typically set out on the “elusive quest for scale” with a desire to have greater impact. Does this mean that a failure to achieve scale in funding implies a failure to achieve scale in impact? Yes and no. A new article shows several alternatives to the fund-raising merry-go-round for impact.
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- Health Care, Impact Assessment
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Mobile Phones, Apps, Throw Lifeline to Shunned Sufferers of Brain and Mental Disorders in Remote World Corners
Grand Challenges Canada today offers funding of up to $270,000 to 21 global mental health projects worldwide and up to $2 million to an innovative program in India designed to improve the quality of mental health patient treatment and end reported abuses.
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- Health Care
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U.S. Telemedicine Initiative Tackles Diabetes Epidemic in Libya
A Libyan-American steering group has been created to manage local outreach, and get as many retinal cameras into primary care situations as possible.
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- Education, Health Care
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- North Africa & Near East
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Finding real wealth in health industry
It may be the best time ever to be living right now. Over the past four decades, the life expectancy of Asians has increased by more than a decade to more than 70 years, thanks to the development of the healthcare industry. New drugs, medical equipment, therapies, organizations, policies and healthcare systems have emerged one after another, bringing improvements in people's lives and changes in their thinking about health management.
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- Education, Entrepreneurship, Health Care
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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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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