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Government partnerships essential to scale mhealth projects
Want to scale your mHealth solution? Mobile health implementers say the key is to engage with the government early and often so that they will eventually take over the project and bring it to scale.
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- Health Care, Technology
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The emerging world’s vaccine pioneers by Bill Gates
"As I look ahead to 2014, I am more optimistic than ever about the progress that we can make using the power of vaccines"
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- Health Care
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A new dawn: India to be certified polio-free this year
Later this month, India will clock three polio-free years, a milestone that will be officially certified in 2014 by the World Health Organisation (WHO).
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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Beyond Bitcoin: some alternative marketplaces lend social empowerment
A variety of companies, like e-Choupal and OneMorePallet, are creating new marketplaces to add value - and boost social and environmental benefits
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- Impact Assessment
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- South Asia
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The Next Frontier: Transforming Healthcare in Africa
Strategic public-private partnerships are going beyond traditional philanthropy to solve Africa's health challenges and promote development.
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- Education, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Philips partners Africa to promote maternal, child health
Over the years, efforts by most countries, including Ghana, to address high maternal and infant mortality rates as a step to meeting Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) Four and Five have yielded some results.
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- Health Care
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Activist finds innovative method to popularise condoms
Janssen is the Communication Advisor to Universal Access to Female Condoms (UAFC), a joint programme launched in 2009 by four organisations (Oxfam Novib, Rutgers WPF, i+solutions and the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs) with the aim of making female condoms accessible and affordable for all.
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- Health Care
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Health conference on social marketing and franchising
The first global health conference on social marketing (SM) and social franchising (SM), the two emerging tools to help India achieve the universal health coverage, will be held in Kochi from December 3 to 5.
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- Technology
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- South Asia