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Finding real wealth in health industry
It may be the best time ever to be living right now. Over the past four decades, the life expectancy of Asians has increased by more than a decade to more than 70 years, thanks to the development of the healthcare industry. New drugs, medical equipment, therapies, organizations, policies and healthcare systems have emerged one after another, bringing improvements in people's lives and changes in their thinking about health management.
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- Education, Health Care
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Kenya: M – Lab Wins Impact Economy Innovations Grant
M:Lab East Africa identifies, nurtures and helps build startups in the knowledge economy by providing training, market research, access to finance and infrastructure among many other services.
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- Education, Impact Assessment
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Philips joins AMREF for Africa health
Royal Philips and the African Medical and Research Foundation (AMREF) announced that they will work closely together in an innovative shared-value partnership model designed to bring about a structural improvement in the healthcare infrastructure and healthcare provision on the African continent.
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- Education, Health Care
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‘A Meeting of Minds’: World’s largest global health and social entrepreneurship conference set for April
The 11th annual Global Health & Innovation Conference at Yale University will draw more than 2,200 participants from around the world. Speakers will cover a variety of topics, including social entrepreneurship, social businesses, business in global health, design thinking, maternal and child health, and non-communicable diseases.
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- Education, Health Care, Social Enterprise
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PPP can help Africa’s health future
The future of Africa's health sector lies in the bosom of Public- Private- Partnership (PPP) and there is no option, Dr khama Rogo, Head of the International Finance Cooperation (IFC) Health in Africa Initiative said Wednesday.
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Surgery Goes Global
Drafting a plan for universal access to surgical care
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- Education, Health Care
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‘Leaning In’ And ‘Pulling Up’: Women’s Economic Equality In The Middle East
According to Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg, too few women are making it to the top, mainly because of socialized gender roles.This rings especially true in the Arab World’s Gulf States, where women often represent a more educated talent pool than the rest of the population, but struggle especially hard against convention, or workplace expectations.
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The Global Shortage of Health Workers
Health workers are essential for health care. Without health workers there are no health systems, yet there is a critical global shortage of them, and it is the poorest countries that are most affected.
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- Education, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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