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Shared value: USAID’s new global health focus
Dr. Pablos-Mendez joined the USAID leadership team with a vision to shape the Bureau for Global Health’s programmatic efforts to accomplish scalable, sustainable and measurable impact on the lives of people in developing countries as envisioned in President Obama’s Global Health Initiative.
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- Health Care
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Big Problems – Big Solutions: One Million CHWs and Living Goods at the Global Health & Innovation Conference
From last weekend’s Global Health & Innovation Conference: Sonia Ehrlich Sachs discusses the One Million Community Health Workers (CHW) Campaign, which aims to rapidly initiate and scale up rural CHW programs in sub-Saharan Africa. Also featured: a video of Mike Pezone discussing the Living Goods model - dubbed "the Avon Ladies of Africa."
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- Health Care
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Medical Care, Aided by the Crowd
Two years ago, Chase Adam, a Peace Corps volunteer in Costa Rica, was riding a bus through a town called Watsi, when a woman got on board asking for money.
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The IT Revolution in Health Care: Jeffrey Sachs’ keynote at the Global Health & Innovation Conference
In our first post on the 2013 Global Health & Innovation Conference, we highlight Jeffrey Sachs’ keynote speech on how information technology is transforming health care. Also included: a must-see video of Leana Wen’s conference session on how to use narrative to enhance diagnosis and transform policy.
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- Health Care, Technology
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Sierra Leone: Using Technology to Save Lives
The telecommunications industry and International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) have teamed up to use mobile phone technology to save lives in Sierra Leone.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Bi-Weekly Checkup (4/11/13): A Tale of Two Students – or, what I wish I would’ve done in college
When Jennifer Staple-Clark was a sophomore in college, she spent her free time establishing an innovative non-profit called Unite for Sight. The organization has become a world-renowned NGO, facilitating over 63,000 sight-restoring surgeries. It also organizes the annual Global Health & Innovation Conference, which takes place this weekend - and which NextBillion Health Care will cover as a media partner.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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Africa: Poverty No Bar to Fighting Deadly Undernutrition
Some of the world’s poorest countries, including two in sub-Saharan Africa, are showing the greatest political commitment to tackling hunger and undernutrition.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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South Africa: People On Art Have Near Normal Life Expectancies
People living with HIV in South Africa, who access antiretroviral therapy (ART) before their immune systems are severely compromised, have life expectancies close to that of the general population, researchers have found.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- public health
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