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Serum Institute to launch a new vaccine every year, says Poonawala
Pune-based vaccines maker Serum Institute plans to launch a new vaccine every year and will launch the first ever synthetic vaccine for rabies by the year-end, CEO, Adar Poonawala, has said.
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- South Asia
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Flying an unregistered drone in Ghana could send you to jail for 30 years
Ghana’s Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) is starting to take drones seriously—very seriously. It has issued new directives on drone ownership and operations, under which operating an unregistered drone (or “Remotely Piloted Aircraft System,” as the authority calls it) can incur a jail term of “up to 30 years.”
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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EdTech That Can Do Much More for Global Learning
Ed-tech has been hailed as a game-changer of sorts, a movement that will equalize the playing field for all children. Of course, this sort of hype does not come without its drawbacks. More research is showing that technology can only be an enabler and aid – not a replacement – to real, live nurturing teachers in the classroom. What is needed in order for technology to work in education? EdTechX Europe was a forum for answers.
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- Education
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The Earth Auger Toilet: A Solution For The Masses?
Sub-Saharan Africa remains one of the primary regions with the least improvement in accomplishing the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) on sanitation by 2015, with only a 30% coverage and an increase of 4% since 1990. In most parts of the region, open defecation is an easier and cheaper alternative, as improved sanitation facilities, which ensure hygienic separation of human excreta from human contact, are either non-existent or too expensive.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- innovation, public health
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Malaria, HIV/Aids Solutions Win Big At Innovation Prize for Africa
A ground-breaking anti-malarial drug made from natural plant extracts has won the 2016 Innovation Prize for Africa (IPA) today; while software to combat HIV drug-resistance medication and a cheap, simple urine test for malaria were the other big winners.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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New Tool to Diagnose Zika
A Boston University researcher is on the team that created a prototype for a simple new test.
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GHIT Fund partners with 10 new global cos to expand investment in R&D for neglected diseases worldwide
The Global Health Innovative Technology Fund (GHIT Fund) welcomed ten new partnerships that include major global pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies—collaborations that will expand investments into research and development (R&D) for neglected diseases worldwide.
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- Asia Pacific
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Meet the ‘flying hospital’ fighting to save the broken hearts of Tanzania’s poor children
More than a million babies worldwide are born every year with a congenital heart defect. Of these, one tenth will not live to see their first birthday. While corrective surgery is normally performed within weeks of the birth, in Tanzania and other developing countries, poverty and a lack of cardiac specialists or facilities mean many go untreated.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- innovation
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