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Health Education That Sticks: Growing from within can be key to changing communities
Roots of Health educates women, young mothers and children, and has found that when this education "sticks," it changes people and even communities. The best way to achieve that goal, ROH maintains, is to grow from within each community, starting on a very personal level.
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Medical services through phone on anvil
Can cellphones save lives? Marking a significant shift, Indian healthcare providers are now looking at extending medical services through mobile telephony.
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- South Asia
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Global Fund boss upbeat about funding future
The Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria aims to find fifteen-billion dollars by December, as part of its replenishment efforts.
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We Have Seen the Future, and It’s Universal: Single-payer systems being penciled onto BoP health care’s ‘blank slate’
There’s a worldwide movement toward universal health coverage because, as one expert says, “systems that rely on direct, out-of-pocket expenditures lead to inequities. … They just don’t work very well.” Next up is identifying the sources of financing and care.
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Deadly gaps persist in new drug development for neglected diseases
In a study published today in the open-access journal The Lancet Global Health, the Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi) and other researchers report a persistent deficiency in truly new therapeutics for neglected diseases, despite nominal progress and an acceleration in research and development (R&D) efforts. This continued 'fatal imbalance' in medical R&D points to the urgent need to develop and deliver groundbreaking new treatments for the world's poorest and most neglected patients.
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Malnutrition is biggest global health problem, Gates Foundation exec tells CU students
Malnutrition plays a major role in the deaths each year of 6.6 million children under 5 years of age, a global health expert told Creighton University premed students Tuesday.
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Building innovative PPPs to fight poverty-related diseases
Innovative forms of across-sectors partnerships add value and accelerate innovation in the fight against poverty-related and neglected tropical diseases, and at the same time contribute to the EU’s research and development policy goals.
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Calling Global Health Innovators: Accelerator designed to help ‘bright spots’ reach scale
A new partnership has the goal of developing innovative solutions to global development challenges. They’re looking for six new entrepreneurs to join their second cohort in January, with an application deadline of Nov. 1.
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