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Tanzania: Helpage Devises Health Monitoring Tools for Elderly
Helpage International has come up with Health Outcome Tools (HOT) in data collection for health and care indicators, especially in assessing the impact of interventions for older persons' health and wellbeing. HelpAge International Country Director, Amleset Tewodros, said HOT is a monitoring and evaluation tool developed for understanding projects or programmes that aim to benefit older men and women in low middle income countries.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- data, public health
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Getting the balance right in African healthcare
Although many African countries' increased focus on strengthening their healthcare systems has led to significant gains in terms of improving health outcomes, the continent continues to struggle with huge challenges such as underfunding, dire shortages of healthcare professionals and a growing double disease burden that encompasses both communicable diseases (CDs) and non-communicable diseases (NCDs).
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Biocon to partner with govt for better rural health facilities
In an attempt to build a scalable healthcare model that'll make affordable healthcare accessible to rural communities, the state department of medical, health and family welfare signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Biocon Foundation, the CSR arm of the pharmaceutical company headed by Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw to establish eLAJ smart clinics in 15 primary healthcare centres (PHC s) across six districts in Karnataka.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- South Asia
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This Tiny Disease-Diagnosing Microchip Only Costs A Cent To Make
Diagnosing disease often requires analysing and detecting single cells with lab tests that cost hundreds of dollars each. Hospitals in a poor country stricken with a disease epidemic like HIV or malaria simply might not have the funds to run all of those tests. Scientists are looking for a cheaper option.
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Opinion: How Pharma Can Fix Its Reputation and Its Business at the Same Time
The business model of research-based pharmaceutical companies is under significant pressure. Their return on R&D investment has dropped to its lowest levels in decades, and their public reputation in the United States and abroad is worse than ever.
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- North America
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- public health
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Africa urged to explore new healthcare financing as overseas donation declines
Sub-Saharan Africa should explore innovative financing for primary healthcare in the light of declining support from overseas donors, advocates said at a forum in Nairobi on Friday. The advocates and policymakers said domestic resources will cushion the health sector in Africa from paralysis occasioned by major cutbacks from bilateral and multilateral donors.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- public health
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Big Funders, Big Data: The Growing Quest to Learn More About Global Health
Back in 2015, when Bloomberg Philanthropies teamed up with the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade to launch a $100 million Data for Health initiative, we learned something surprising: According to the World Health Organization, around two-thirds of all deaths around the world go unrecorded—that’s around 35 million people.
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- Health Care
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Corporate Aid Can Revive India’s Ailing Public Healthcare System
Despite the rapid growth of the private sector, the government has been unable to employ its services in providing quality healthcare across all segments of society. And we need to ask why!
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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- public health