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Anti-TB Fight Has Big Return on Investment, Says Health Minister
Investing in the fight against tuberculosis (TB) offers potentially huge future savings, with an estimated return of $85 for every dollar spent.
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- Health Care, Investing
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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India Looks to Improve African Health
At the recent India-Africa summit in Delhi, Prime Minister Narendra Modi met 54 African heads of state to discuss ways of deepening relationships, including working together to improve public health.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- public health
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Beer merger poses ‘major threat to global health’
Experts warn of 'disturbing' implications for epidemic of alcohol related harm in the developing world, particularly Africa.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- public health
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Changing the Definition of a Surgeon: GE Foundation launches Safe Surgery 2020, based on the idea that clinic leadership isn’t limited to doctors
Based on three main pillars – leadership development, innovation and elevating ideas – Safe Surgery 2020 is rooted in the idea that safe surgery champions in operating rooms, hospitals and at national levels have the potential to drive cost-effective, systemic change. For example, training a doctor to empower other members of the care team to report and act upon clinical observations can greatly improve surgical outcomes.
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- Education, Health Care
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‘We Need to Partner More’: Business Call to Action panelists discuss new ways of thinking necessary to achieve SDGs
The best way to achieve the Sustainable Development Goal of “ensuring healthy lives and promoting wellbeing for all at all ages” is through innovative cross-sector collaborations. That was the takeaway from a breakout panel discussion – “Toward a Healthier Future: Catalyzing Partnerships to Drive Better Health” – at the Business Call to Action’s sixth annual forum.
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- Environment, Health Care, Social Enterprise
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Today’s nutrition work calls for business, tech skills
For those headed down career paths related to nutrition and global health, experts and industry professionals aren’t just calling for medical degrees or experience in the clinical field. What’s needed, officials from UNICEF, the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition and political scientists told Devex, is business and tech expertise — namely MBA-holders and nutrition technologists.
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- Education, Health Care
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- public health
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A Chemist’s Novel Idea: Teri Dankovich invents a type of paper that filters water, then incorporates it into a ‘Drinkable Book’
Teri Dankovich invented a paper that purifies drinking water, and she's incorporated that paper into a book which includes information on why and how water should be filtered. In this Q&A interview, she talks about how her research project evolved, how the paper works, what the business prospects are and how it might some day save millions of lives.
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- Health Care, Technology
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Viewpoint: Iran Nuclear Deal Will Bolster Global Health
National security and regional stability have dominated the political debate over the Iran nuclear accord in recent weeks. Less discussed, however, are the far-reaching, positive implications for public health that will come when sanctions are lifted, as the deal calls for, and Iran’s medical system can begin to cooperate with the West again.
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- Health Care
- Region
- North Africa & Near East
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- public health