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New service uses mobile phones to reduce maternal mortality
For many rural expectant and new mothers, health care providers may be far away, but new technology is bringing them close through the mobile phone, now almost ubiquitous even in the poorest corners of the world.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- public health
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Process, Not Product: How lessons from India can transform health care across borders
Partnership aims to increase access to health care worldwide by identifying and spreading the word about promising innovations. Next up, a study tour of four forward-thinking firms in India.
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- Health Care
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- public health
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GAVI’s David Ferreira: Private sector to boost vaccine supply-chain effectiveness
At this year’s Clinton Global Initiative, the GAVI Alliance announced a pair of new intiatives that aim to leverage private sector funds and expertise to improve delivery of vaccines worldwide.
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Comprehensive and Successful Healthcare: Innovations from Brazil
For over twenty years Saúde Criança -- "Child Health" in English -- has helped thousands of poor families, mostly female-headed households, cope with chronic health problems that affect their children. It does so through fostering partnerships with public hospitals and implementing a co-responsibility scheme with families whose children suffer major health issues such as cancer, brain tumors, or chronic respiratory problems.
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Sucre Blue sets up affordable, community health care in India
Erin Little’s inspiration to establish India’s Sucre Blue stemmed from the problems she encountered with a Type 1 diabetes diagnosis during her childhood. “It was getting to a point where it was really, really hard to take care of myself,” Little told MSNBC about her health insurance costs.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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World leaders set to tackle global healthcare challenges at World Innovation Summit for Health
The most pressing global healthcare challenges are to be tackled as the world’s leading medical, academic and government professionals gather at the inaugural World Innovation Summit for Health (WISH) in Doha, Qatar on 10-11 December 2013.
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NexThought Monday – Stories Without Borders: And one way to start telling them
In 2006, blogging was radical. But Doctors Without Borders tried it anyway, and field blogs help put a human face on the organization while allowing readers a glimpse into a world that was otherwise unknown to them.
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How finding research gaps can help fight malnutrition
The case of nutrition in the development agenda is often complicated. It is often overshadowed when bundled with food security, and yet donors sometimes appear clueless on how to solve one without addressing the other, leaving many to question on whether donor money is really making a dent in the global fight against malnutrition. So what can the aid community do? Nutrition experts on Thursday converged in New York — where development takes center stage this week — to present some 20 priority areas for nutrition research in the first Global Research Agenda on Nutrition Services. These include:* Describing the interactions between the food system and nutrition. * Integrating individual and household-level factors underlying economic vulnerability and food insecurity. * Role of nutrition in developmental origins of health and disease. * The relationship between markers of nutrition and functional outcomes. * Knowledge related to inputs of nutrition intervention.
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