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Enlisting Quacks in the Battle Against TB: An alarming study from Lepra highlights the need to train and regulate informal providers
Tuberculosis is second only to HIV/AIDS as the world’s deadliest infectious disease - and improper treatment can increase its drug resistance. But alarming research from the international charity Lepra suggests that proper treatment is rare among the informal providers common at the BoP. Lepra spoke with NextBillion Health Care about the need to enlist these providers in the fight against TB.
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Beyond the Clinic: A holistic approach to creating community health in Ecuador
Most health care systems are structured to treat illness. APROFE, an Ecuadorian non-profit, focuses on preventing it by creating thriving communities. Its outreach programs include everything from health education and preventive care to entrepreneurial development, aiming to make communities – and the people in them – healthy, happy and prosperous.
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Tanzania’s Mwanzo Bora: Promoting “good starts” in community agriculture and nutrition
In Tanzania, 53 percent of pregnant women are anemic, and 35 percent of children under three are stunted - both evidence of severe malnutrition. Africare’s Mwanzo Bora project (the name means “good start” in Kiswahili) integrates agriculture and nutrition to address a host of malnutrition issues in women and children in rural Tanzania, focusing on the first 1,000 days of children’s lives.
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Innovating to improve the health of women and children: T-HOPE researches innovative delivery models in maternal and child health
Every year, almost 300,000 mothers and 7.6 million children under the age of five die from largely preventable causes - the vast majority at the BoP. The Toronto Health Organization Performance Evaluation, in collaboration with CHMI, researched innovative solutions to maternal and child health care, presenting them at the recent Private Sector in Health symposium in Sydney, Australia.
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Demand Forecasting Takes Off: How improved strategic demand forecasting is helping global health investors, manufacturers and donors
Poor forecasting of expected demand for key products is a pervasive problem in global health. It can lead to the waste of unsold drugs, instability in the prices and availability of essential products, and even drug shortages, resulting in incomplete treatments and drug resistance. But as the Center for Global Development reports, global health funders are making important progress on the issue.
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A Feast for the Senses: Global health innovations in sight and sound – Bi-weekly Checkup, 7/5/13
Some of the coolest innovations to cross our radar screen in the past few weeks have involved vision and hearing – whether it’s enhancing them in doctors, or improving them in patients. This Bi-weekly Checkup explores some of the sense-focused innovations that have caught my eye (sorry) because of their potential impact on patients at the base of the pyramid.
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Keeping Up with the Indians: Exploring emerging practices in a health care innovation powerhouse
Extending health services to the 350 million living below the poverty line in India is no easy task. But due to necessity and ingenuity, the country has become a vibrant testing ground for new solutions that help meet the needs of its large, diverse population. In this post from CHMI, Aarthi Rao explores some of the approaches that have made India a powerhouse in health care innovation.
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Environment, education and health need urgent progress, says MDG report
Sub-Saharan Africa and southern Asia lag behind rest of world, with targets on child and maternal deaths, and sanitation significantly off-target
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- Education, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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