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Want Healthier Food? Pay Farmers to Manage Nutrient Flows: The movement toward “ecosystem services” compensation
Farmers have traditionally made their money by producing food. But the growing awareness of the relationship between healthy ecosystems and healthy foods is leading some to consider other forms of compensation. Farmers may be paid to control water flow or sequester carbon dioxide on their property, for example. As part of their Nutrients for All campaign, Ashoka Changemakers explores some of these emerging compensation approaches.
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- Agriculture, Environment, Health Care
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- nutrition, public health
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HIV Self-Testing: The Key To Controlling The Global Epidemic
A new international study has confirmed that self-testing for HIV is effective and could be the answer to controlling the global epidemic.
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- Health Care
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- public health
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Saving Lives Efficiently: A new study measures the impact of community health workers
Discussion of global health efforts often focuses on the newest medicine or latest advanced device. But a new study by the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health found impressive results in an approach that’s been around for decades: community health workers. By employing local community members to provide access to basic health care, community health worker programs play an important role in countries with a shortage of doctors, nurses and other health professionals.
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- Education, Health Care
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- public health, research
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No sign of human transmission in new bird flu appearance-WHO
The World Health Organization says no evidence has emerged to show that a type of bird flu which has killed two Chinese men can be transmitted between people.
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- Health Care
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- Asia Pacific
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- public health
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Subscribing to Better Health: How Sevamob’s model helps patients – and its bottom line
When people think of innovative business models in BoP health care, they often think of delivery or supply chain innovations. But there’s also a wealth of experimentation on the health financing side, involving everything from micro-insurance to subscription fees. Sevamob, an Indian social enterprise, uses a subscription model. In this Q&A, Shelley Saxena, Sevamob’s founder, discusses the advantages and challenges of this approach.
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- Health Care, Social Enterprise
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Kenya: Faith Healers Key to Fighting Mental Disorders
Traditional and faith healers are among informal players that are expected to aid the health sector in bridging the human resource gap in mental health service delivery.
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- Health Care
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- public health
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The Novartis Decision: Is the Big Win for Indian Pharma Bad News for Investment?
In a decisive victory for India’s pharmaceutical industry, India’s Supreme Court rejected Novartis’ patent application for the cancer drug Glivec on Monday.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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- public health
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Reaching The Final 20: Investing in infrastructure to improve health care delivery
One of the harsh realities of global health today is that the quality and supply of life-saving innovations exceeds the capacity of many health systems to deliver them. For many low-income countries, gaps in the underlying infrastructure prevent new innovations from reaching those who need them most. VillageReach is a non-profit that helps private enterprise develop health care-related infrastructure, so that innovations can reach the "Final 20" - the 20 percent who live in the most remote, rural areas.
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- Health Care