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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
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Lifebuoy, UNICEF partner to fight colera
Lifebuoy commences another journey towards saving lives by partnering UNICEF with donation of Lifebuoy soap towards basic hygiene practice aimed at preventing the spread of cholera in Nigeria.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Infosys to help Dutch community on health project
Indian IT bellwether Infosys will partner with Commit, a public-private research community in the Netherlands, for a sensor-based engagement for an improved health project, the company said.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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Pfizer, Carter Center Partner in Global Health Project
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter joined Pfizer at the company's headquarters on Nov. 5, 2013, to commemorate the fifteenth anniversary of the International Trachoma Initiative (ITI), an independent, not-for-profit program dedicated to the elimination of blinding trachoma as a public health concern.
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Philips Partners With AMREF Flying Doctors To Improve Health Care In Africa
Royal Philips and African Medical and Research Foundation or AMREF Flying Doctors, the largest health organization in Africa, announced Tuesday that they will work closely together in a shared-value partnership model designed to bring about a structural improvement in the health care infrastructure and provision on the African continent.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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