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South Africa Moves to Revitalize Nursing
Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi has unveiled a national strategic plan aimed at rebuilding and revitalising the nursing profession in South Africa.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Global Burden of Disease Estimates: Secret Recipes or Spoiled Ingredients?
Although counting the sick and dead in a country can seem quite dull if not morbid, these facts are critical inputs to designing any national health policy, let alone global priorities in health. Yet 85% of the world’s population still lack systems that register births and deaths along with high-quality data on causes of death.
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Interview with Impact Investment Shujog and Impact Investment Exchange (IIX)
Robert Kraybill, Managing Director at IIX, and Magnus Young, Research Manager at Shujog, join us today to share their insights on the work they do at Shujog and IIX. They also provide their analyses on the trends in the impact investing space.
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- South Asia
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Innovation Forward and Backward: BRAC adapts its microcredit model to water, sanitation and hygiene
Innovators often focus on things that are radically new, when it’s sometimes preferable to adapt proven concepts to new spaces. BRAC has long been helping people in BoP communities form village organizations to obtain microcredit. Now it has applied this model to the problems of water, sanitation and hygiene through the WASH program. Babar Kabir, senior director of the program, explains its approach.
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World Allergy Week 2013 Will Focus on the Rising Global Health Problem of Food Allergy: Heaviest Burden is on Children
The World Allergy Organization (WAO) will host its annual World Allergy Week from 8-14 April, 2013, together with its 93 national Member Societies, to address the topic of “Food Allergy – A Rising Global Health Problem,” and its growing burden on children.
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Africa: Advance Market Commitments ‘Promising Solutions’ to Global Health Challenges
An evaluation of the design of the pilot Advance Market Commitment (AMC) for pneumococcal vaccines published today shines a light on the groundbreaking funding mechanism which has already helped vaccinate 13 million children against the world's biggest childhood killer.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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AIDS researchers and global health community ponder a reported cure
AIDS researchers, advocacy organizations and global health officials spent Monday trying to determine whether the report that a baby girl born in Mississippi was cured of the infection is a therapeutic breakthrough or a scientific curiosity.
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“The Female Sanitary Revolution”: Disruptive innovations break taboos to promote women’s health
Every 28 days across the globe, half the world’s population menstruates. This presents a major challenge for millions of girls and women in BoP countries who can’t afford sanitary napkins. Cheaper alternatives like newspaper or rags are ineffective and unhygienic, often leading to health risks and absences at school or work. Fortunately, new innovations promise to lower prices and revolutionize female sanitation at the BoP.
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