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Pfizer, Carter Center Partner in Global Health Project
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter joined Pfizer at the company's headquarters on Nov. 5, 2013, to commemorate the fifteenth anniversary of the International Trachoma Initiative (ITI), an independent, not-for-profit program dedicated to the elimination of blinding trachoma as a public health concern.
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- Health Care
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Philips Partners With AMREF Flying Doctors To Improve Health Care In Africa
Royal Philips and African Medical and Research Foundation or AMREF Flying Doctors, the largest health organization in Africa, announced Tuesday that they will work closely together in a shared-value partnership model designed to bring about a structural improvement in the health care infrastructure and provision on the African continent.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Most African nations ‘will not achieve Millennium Development Goals’
Most African countries will not achieve Millennium Development Goals (MDG) by the 2015 deadline, women leaders have said. The women raised the red flag in Addis Ababa Ethiopia during a meeting that brought together leaders from across the continent.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- public health
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Social Enterprise in Haiti: An oxymoron or a reality?
More than two dozen development-minded thinkers and doers convened in Cambridge, Mass., for a competition-based workshop designed to find a market-based solution to cholera in Haiti. The winning idea, which includes recruiting and training “community chlorinators,” is expected to be up and running by this time next year.
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- Education, Environment, Health Care, Social Enterprise
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UN and World Bank to boost support for women’s health, girls’ education in Africa’s Sahel
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim pledged today to support an initiative to improve women’s reproductive health and girls’ education in Africa’s Sahel region, and to invest $200 million in a new project to achieve these goals.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Nigerian Governor – Why We’re Training Health Professionals
To address the dearth of medical personnel in public hospitals in Kano State, the state government has embarked on a deliberate strategy of training indigenes in medical and related-courses, the state governor, Rabiu Kwankwaso has revealed.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Global Health Corps Calls for Young Professionals to Join the Movement for Health Equity
Global Health Corps (GHC) opened applications for its sixth class of fellows and urged young professionals who want to make an impact in global health and development to apply for its fellowships in Burundi, Malawi, Rwanda, Uganda, Zambia and the United States
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- Health Care
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Expanding Healthcare Needs and Technology Advancements Drive the Global Stethoscopes Market
Despite the advent of several newer technologies such as electrocardiography, hand-held ultrasounds, among others, stethoscopes continue to be the primary device used by healthcare professionals for listening to sounds emanating from the heart and other body organs.
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- Health Care
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