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Vive la France!: Has UNITAID unlocked the secret to sustainable foreign aid?
As countries struggle with deficits and debt, foreign aid often ends up on the chopping block. In response, UNITAID has developed an innovative model that raises funds for development aid from micro-taxes on business activity. It uses those funds - and market-based interventions - to increase BoP countries’ access to essential drugs and diagnostics. In this interview, UNITAID Chair Philippe Douste-Blazy discusses the organization’s funding and drug accessibility innovations.
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With end of TRIPS, aid groups see access to cheap drugs closing
Civil society groups are rallying efforts to extend a deal that is seen to give the world’s poorest countries access to cheap drugs.
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When Vaccines Can’t Help: How Supply Chain Failures Undermine Vaccine Advancements – And What’s Being Done About It
Breakthroughs in vaccine technology are revolutionizing disease prevention. But complex new vaccines can require over twice the refrigeration and transport capacity of traditional vaccines, and can cost up to 50 times more. BoP countries can’t afford to waste these new vaccines, but their supply and logistic systems make waste inevitable. Solutions exist, but only if we bring new thinking to supply chain management.
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Out of the Shadows?: New research calls for more engagement with informal health care sector
There’s a growing awareness of the importance of informal medical providers in BoP communities. But health care advocates and policy makers are often reluctant to acknowledge and legitimize them. Underlying this reluctance is a lack of data about the informal sector’s size, utilization and quality. Rose Reis of CHMI talks with May Sudhinaraset, lead author of a recent study that summarizes research on this often-overlooked sector around the world.
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- Education, Health Care
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Bill Gates and Michael Bloomberg: Our Plan to Eradicate Polio
More than three decades ago, each of us started a technology company based on a big idea—and each company found success based on a culture of innovation and accountability.
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Bi-Weekly Checkup – 3/1/13: What you may have missed and what we’re working on at NB Health Care
We’re launching a new regular feature at NextBillion Health Care – the Bi-Weekly Checkup. (Sorry for the obligatory medical pun – hey, it’s a health care blog…)
The Checkup has three main functions:
To highlight recent posts and news items that you might have missed, to explore new ideas, organizations and trends in global health and health-related social enterprise and to let you know about upcoming content on NBHC.- Categories
- Agriculture, Health Care, Social Enterprise
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India Bends Curve on Child Health
India is making positive strides in reducing child mortality through new policies and ambitious programs, but preventing the deaths of millions of children remains one of the country’s greatest challenges.
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- South Asia
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GlaxoSmithKline unit joins patent pool for AIDS drugs
GlaxoSmithKline's HIV/AIDS drugs business is to share intellectual property rights on children's medicine in a patent pool designed to make treatments more widely available in poor countries.
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