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December 29, 2012
GSK partners with Vodafone to help increase childhood vaccination in Mozambique
Despite availability of vaccines worldwide and millions in funding more than 20% of the world’s children do not receive the vaccinations they need. GSK has now partnered with Vodafone to remedy this by leveraging their innovative mobile technology. Read more here.
December 29, 2012
A machine to help end TB
GeneXpert is the name of a machine which resembles a high-end espresso maker is a device which can detect a drug resistant form of TB called MDR (multidrug resistant) TB (tuberculosis). While in the rural areas of developing countries, diagnosis can take up to 6 months, by when permanent lung […]
December 29, 2012
Is social franchising the next big thing in low cost healthcare
This post argues for the case of a successful scale up of low cost healthcare by the model of franchising. It lists why social franchising would be ‘consistent and convenient’, something that private healthcare is in essence, and hence the first choice of half of all people in the developing […]
December 29, 2012
Tanzania now free of Tetanus in mothers and children
The government of Tanzania recently celebrated the extinction of tetanus from the mothers and children in the country. Read more here.
December 29, 2012
LifeWrap – saving women from losing their lives to obstetric haemorrhaging
Obstetric haemorrhaging kills many women across the developing world every year. LifeWrap is the name of a simple but ingenious first aid device. It is a scuba-style wet-suit sliced into strips that Velcro around a woman’s lower body. Read more here.
December 29, 2012
A microfranchise health store launched in Gautemala
Tiendas de la Salud is the name of a new healthcare social enterprise which aims to address the healthcare needs of the poor, as well as the extremely poor in Gautemala, where almost half the country is poor, and about 13% live in extreme poverty. Tiendas de la Salud is […]
December 29, 2012
Coke is everywhere, but medicine is not
This post compares the worldwide penetration of Coke with medical facilities. The author finds that the difference between the production and distribution strategies of the two is that while Coke’s strategy includes information and incentives, medicine’s does not. Read more here.
December 29, 2012
Top health market innovations of 2012
CHMI, or Centre for Health Market Innovations has compiled its 2012 list for new trends that aims to improve quality, affordability and accessibility of healthcare for the most vulnerable populations of the developing world. Read the report here.
December 29, 2012
India: Arunachal Pradesh rolls out Centre sponsored health insurance scheme
The north-eastern state of Arunachal Pradesh has unrolled within the state the health insurance scheme by the Central Government called RSBY or the Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana, wherein people living below the poverty line will be provided with a health insurance scheme. Read more here.
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