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Govt urges private health care providers to set up centres in rural areas
The government urged private health care providers to set up centres in semi-rural and rural areas in order to bridge the disparity in availability of healthcare services between urban and rural areas.
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- South Asia
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Health to Humanity Uses Bath Amenity to Train African Entrepreneurs
"What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization,” said Dr. Abraham Maslow, a psychologist who, in 1943, wrote about his theory on human’s hierarchy of needs.
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- North America
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Malawi drone test centre to help with healthcare, disasters
The project, which will cover up to 40 kilometres around the administrative capital Lilongwe, will be fully operational by April in a collaboration between Malawi and UNICEF.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Healthcare In Africa, Built By India
Economic diplomacy is the use of aid, trade, and investment policy tools to achieve a geopolitical objective. India’s geoeconomic diplomacy has so far focussed mainly on the use of scholarships, grants, and concessional lines of credit. New Delhi now has the capacity to move beyond those basics by using the strengths of India’s private sector in healthcare.
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As drug approvals dive in 2016, returns on R&D deteriorate
The global pharmaceuticals industry is set to win the lowest annual number of new drug approvals this year since 2010 and a new report on Tuesday suggests drugmakers' returns on research investment are deteriorating.
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Pokemon Go Probably Didn’t Make Its Users More Active After All
In July 2016, when Nintendo unleashed its Pokemon GO game (which uses augmented reality to let players find Pokemon in the real world), many salivated over an enticing idea: at long last, a video game—a video game—had successfully convinced people to get more exercise.
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ILO Says 50M Jobs Required to Address Global Health
A new study released by the International Labour Organisation, ILO, weekend in Geneva, Switzerland, said an estimated 50 million decent jobs were missing in 2016 to address essential global health requirements through universal health coverage, UHC, and ensure human security, particularly with respect to highly infectious diseases like Ebola.
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This Device Could Revolutionize How Malaria Is Detected Around the World
Brian Grimberg was working at a clinic in Papua New Guinea, watching in frustration as the queue of people hoping to get tested for malaria stretched out the door. It took almost an hour to analyze each person’s blood. Clearly, they wouldn’t get to everyone.
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- Health Care
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- public health, research
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