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Pre-plan for ebola-style crises
African operators have been advised to pre-plan for a crisis such as the one faced by West African countries in the form of the ebola outbreak, by ensuring people are signed up to information dissemination services in advance.
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- Health Care
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Crowdfunding Global Health
According to Wikipedia, crowdfunding is “the practice of funding a project or venture by raising many small amounts of money from a large number of people, typically via the Internet”.
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- Health Care
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Unlocking the Potential of Nigeria’s Private Sector: A look behind the $24 million pledge for health innovations
Nigerian business leaders have made a $24 million commitment, through the Private Sector Healthcare Alliance of Nigeria, to focus on maternal and child mortality reductions for the Saving One Million Lives initiative.
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- Environment, Health Care
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USAID encourages private sector participation in new healthcare program
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) on Friday launched its Healthy Markets program, an initiative to encourage the investment of local private sector and foster growth of a commercial market, in Ho Chi Minh City.
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- Health Care
- Region
- South Asia
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- public health
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Backed by Gates, Affinivax Ramps up Velcro-like Vaccine Tech
A new startup with backing by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation called Affinivax claims it’s created a vaccine to protect against all 90 strains of pneumococcal bacteria. Now comes the hard part: scaling up, proving it in clinical trials, and making a successful business out of it.
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- Health Care
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China To Build Liberia Health System
The government of the People’s Republic of China has pledged that as a plan for the post-Ebola period, it will work with other international partners to help build and modernize Liberia’s health sector.
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- Health Care
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Tanzania looks to India to set up tele-medicine network
A high-level delegation of medical experts from Tanzania led by its Health Minister Seif Suleiman Rashid today visited the Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences here to study its tele-medicine programme with a view to setting up a similar facility in their country.
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- Health Care
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- governance, public health
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US sends health official to Cuban Ebola meeting
U.S. and Cuban health officials sat together in Havana on Wednesday to discuss Latin America's response to Ebola, the most concrete sign so far of the nations' desire to cooperate against the epidemic despite decades of tense relations.
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- Health Care
- Region
- Latin America
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