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WHO Approves Malaria Vaccine in Historic First for Global Health
It’s a groundbreaking moment for public health that could save tens of thousands of lives annually.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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After the Pandemic: How Will COVID-19 Transform Global Health and Development?
The short-term implications of this global challenge are evident everywhere, but the long-term consequences of the pandemic — how it will reshape health and development institutions, occupations, and priorities — are still difficult to imagine.
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- Coronavirus, Health Care
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Data Mapping Key to Track Disease Spread and Plug Health Gaps, Experts Say
“It sounds almost obvious, but we can’t get a health worker in a community if we don’t know that community exists,” said Avi Kenny, former director of research, monitoring, and evaluation at nonprofit organization Last Mile Health, adding that census data in low- and middle-income countries is often not that good.
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- Coronavirus, Health Care, Technology
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This Virus Is Ravaging Rich Countries. What Happens When It Hits the Poor Ones?
The ebola epidemic of 2014 is still fresh in the mind in sub-Saharan African countries; it was an experience that showed prevention and containment are the only hope of fending off thousands of deaths.
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- Coronavirus
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Enterprise in the Time of Coronavirus: How NextBillion and the Businesses We Cover Are Responding to the Pandemic
As the coronavirus pandemic spreads around the world, it will have an immense impact on emerging markets communities and the businesses that serve them. So we wanted to take a moment to explain how NextBillion will be responding to these extraordinary times. We’re instituting a number of measures that will affect our coverage of coronavirus and other topics in the coming months.
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- Coronavirus, Health Care, Social Enterprise
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Preventing Coronavirus in an Age of Distrust: The Importance of Cross-Sector Collaboration
As the coronavirus pandemic spreads, public health institutions are playing an essential role in containing the virus. Unfortunately, as Steve Schmida at Resonance points out, trust in large institutions is at an all-time low in many countries – and this is a major impediment to preventing the spread of the virus. He explores how governments can partner with both private enterprises and non-profits to boost public trust and promote efforts to contain coronavirus.
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- Coronavirus, Health Care
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African Nations Impose Stricter Measures as Coronavirus Spreads
Though the continent is still far behind Europe and Asia in the total numbers of Covid-19 cases, the disease has now reached about half of its countries.
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- Coronavirus
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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USAID Head to Resign Amid Coronavirus Pandemic
The head of the United States Agency for International Development will step down next month from the nation’s premier arm for humanitarian aid in the midst of a snowballing pandemic.
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- Coronavirus