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Global push seeks greater spending to improve health
Lawrence Summers has a new mission. The former U.S. Treasury secretary and chief economic adviser to President Obama is looking to improve the world's health dramatically over the next 20 years. Part of his job is to persuade governments - mostly in low- and lower-middle-income countries - to spend tens of billions of dollars a year to get there.
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- Health Care
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Maternal health program in India failing to deliver
A prominent program that claims to reduce infant and maternal deaths in rural India by encouraging mothers to deliver in private hospitals has been unsuccessful, despite the investment of more than $25 million since 2005, a new Duke University study finds.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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All Health Care Is Local in Uganda
The late Tip O'Neill, former speaker of the U.S. House, coined the phrase "all politics is local," by which he meant that politicians become successful by addressing the everyday concerns of the voters who elected them to office
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Masimo and Newborn Foundation Jointly Announce Mobile Health Initiative to Reduce Global Newborn Mortality
The Newborn Foundation’s BORN Project launches with new iSpO2 Rx mobile technology for early detection of health conditions in newborns in low-resource settings.
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- Health Care, Technology
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Investment Program Can Cut Global Health Disparities by 2035
The authors of the framework note that the current generation has the financial and technological capability to begin closing the global health gap.
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- Entrepreneurship, Health Care
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A California nonprofit is crowdfunding its tech-enabled HIV vaccine project
It is now 25 years since the first World AIDS Day. Although patient outcomes have improved significantly over that time, the long-sought-after vaccine remains elusive.
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- Health Care
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Tanzania: Home Child Delivery an HIV/Aids Risk
When HIV positive women give birth, treatment for the newborns has to start immediately as any delay may result into the transmission of viruses from mother to child
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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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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