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Chagas Disease: Urgent Measures Are Needed
Global health topics are typically presented in the context of extreme poverty in sub-Saharan Africa or Asia. However, today approximately 100 million people in the Western Hemisphere also live on less than $2 per day. About 10 percent of these "bottom 100 million" currently live with a serious and life-threatening neglected disease known as Chagas disease or American trypanosomiasis.
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- Education, Health Care
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GAVI raises $152 million for vaccinations with private sector partnerships
The GAVI Alliance announced on Friday that it secured $152 million to immunize children against disease using private sector partnerships, a unique funding mechanism leveraging cash and expertise from corporations and foundations.
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- Health Care
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Philippines Works to Freeze Spread of Childhood Diseases
On Wednesday the Philippine government’s Research Institute for Tropical Medicine, or RITM, will get new walk-in freezer, which will be used to store vaccines for various viruses, measles included.
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- Health Care
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- Asia Pacific
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Preparing for a dengue fever vaccine: why Brazil’s ahead of the game
Six dengue vaccine candidates are in various stages of clinical development but developing countries will not receive the benefits if planning does not start now.
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- Health Care
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Achieving Global Health Equality Within a Generation
When looking at the broad sweep of human history, people's health status was relatively similar across the world. Death rates for mothers and children were high, life expectancy was short, and health status was poor. This was the universal condition.Only in the past two centuries have we seen the world diverge.
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- Education, Health Care
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3 Myths That Block Access to the Poor
Every year The Gates Foundation releases an annual letter, this is 2014 where Bill Gates states "By 2035, there will be almost no poor countries left in the world."
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- Education, Health Care
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Indian cos among emerging world’s vaccine heroes: Bill Gates
According to Gates, Serum Institute produces a higher volume of vaccines than any other company in the world
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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- manufacturing, vaccines
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How vaccines helped India defeat polio while Pakistan become a reservoir for the virus
The diverging fortunes of India and Pakistan in recent years show what an effective vaccination push can do to tackle disease.
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- Health Care
- Region
- South Asia
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- governance, vaccines
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