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Now for some good news:Two books argue that the future is brighter than we think
The lab-on-a-chip (LOC) is a small device with a huge potential. It can run dozens of diagnostic tests on human DNA in a few minutes. Give the device a gob of spit or a drop of blood and it will tell you whether or not you are sick without any need to send your DNA to a laboratory. In poor countries LOCs could offer diagnostics to millions who lack access to expensive laboratories. In the rich world they may curb rising medical costs.
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- Health Care, Impact Assessment, Technology
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The Future of mHealth: Mobile Phones Improve Care in Developing World
People in developing nations depend on mobile phones to access health services and prevent disease, as mobile technology creates a platform for improving healthcare in remote, underserved areas.
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- Health Care, Technology
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Benin Makes Headway in Attempt to Reduce Deaths from Malaria
Last year Benin announced free treatment for malaria, and has now followed up by cracking down on fake drugs and recruiting an army of outreach health workers
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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How ‘Toil-o-preneurs’ Are Scaling Sanitation Solutions
Nearly 50 percent of India’s urban poor do not have access to clean toilets. With increasing migration to cities like Mumbai and Delhi, the pressure on public sanitation facilities has been immense. Shramik Sanitation Systems (3S), one of the early social enterprises that looked at sanitation in a holistic manner, provides community toilets in urban environments of India.
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- Health Care
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- profits, public health, sanitation
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New CHMI Report Highlights 5 Market-Based Health Models to Watch
CHMI looks for programs in multiple countries with the same models or similar goals, services, organizational structures, and operational processes. We’re hunting for the next Aravind-or really the next 50 Aravinds, because the field is moving that fast. Here is a list of 5 health models proliferating around the world during the past decade.
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- Entrepreneurship, Health Care
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Three Decades in the Making, How the Aravind Model Came into Focus
At the core of Aravind?s success is a strong culture of service, an attitude of daily work, not as a mechanical endeavor, but as work in service of self and community. This central ethic permeates the Aravind workforce and drives its mission. But how does a culture of service, where many patients are treated for free, add up to good business?
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NextThought Monday: When Mass Marketing Meets Global Health, the Case of Lifebuoy Soap
While the UN continues to fall well short of its Millennium Development Goals and aid agencies pour ever-more money into hygiene aid programs, Lifebuoy is taking a very different approach. The Unilever brand recently launched an effort to globalize its hand washing campaign, marketing its way towards the one billion benchmark.
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- Health Care
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Reinvent Maternal Health: It’s a Challenge
ABC News, The Lemelson Foundation, and Duke Global Health Institute recently teamed up to launch the Reinventing Maternal Health challenge. Targeted to university students, this challenge seeks to find the most innovative, impactful idea that will prevent thousands of women from dying in childbirth across the globe.
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