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UPMC and TeleChikitsa tie up to bring cutting edge medicine to India
University of Pittsburgh Schools of the Health Sciences or UPMC is all set to make a foray into Indian healthcare. The leading medical center based out of the US has tied up with India’s TeleChikitsa Ventures, based in Bangalore with an aim to provide leading and cutting edge healthcare to India. As a part of their project UPMC is all set to aid India and Afghanistan with their healthcare needs. With an aim to spread their brand overseas, UPMC will use video equipment to examine patients, second opinions and consultations to patients.
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Opinion: The Role of Global Health R&D in the New Development Framework
While everybody recognises that health is an essential precondition for development, the research and innovation dimension of global health has too often been side-lined in the development discourse.
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- Education, Health Care
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U.S. Telemedicine Initiative Tackles Diabetes Epidemic in Libya
A Libyan-American steering group has been created to manage local outreach, and get as many retinal cameras into primary care situations as possible.
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- North Africa & Near East
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e-health Centre Soon in Ghatshila Subdivision
The electronic health centre that will commence at Musabani Surda in March has the capacity to diagnose 90 patients each day.
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- South Asia
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Philly-area contingent helps advance health initiatives in Africa
Volunteers from the Philadelphia region are in Washington this week to learn new lobbying skills and other ways to support health missions in sub-Saharan Africa. The ONE campaign, which works to fight extreme poverty around the world, is sponsoring the four-day training and advocate-education summit.
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Africa Could Manufacture Its Own ARVs Drugs
President John Dramani Mahama has made a strong case for African nations and other developing countries to be supported in the local manufacture of Anti Retroviral Drugs (ARV) to ensure a more affordable treatment of people living with AIDS.
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Experts to map Nigeria’s neglected tropical diseases
Nigerian health officials partnering with international experts have embarked on a national programme to map Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) by analysing data obtained from 14 of the country’s 36 states.
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UNAIDS and Lancet Commission to put forward recommendations on AIDS and global health for the post-2015 debate
The UNAIDS and Lancet Commission: Defeating AIDS – Advancing global health is meeting in London on the future of AIDS and global health in the post-2015 era—the recommendations will be published in The Lancet later this year.
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