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India: Supreme Court asks Novartis to reduce cancer drug price

The Supreme Court of India recently, for the second time asked Novartis, the global pharmaceutical giant to reduce the price of its cancer drug Glivec. The cost per month for treatment with this drug would come up to INR 120,000, which is too high for even the middle income people […]

September 15, 2012

India: Gujarat government rolls out healthcare scheme for the poor

The government of the Indian state of Gujarat has undertaken massive reforms in the free provision of healthcare to its citizens. It will be providing health insurance to some 18 million poor, while also providing health insurance of up to INR 200,000 to the EWS (Economically Weaker Sections) of the […]

September 15, 2012

Novo Nordisk to get healthworkers for diabetes care for the poor at their doorsteps

Novo Nordisk, the Danish company which has a majority share in India’s insulin market is planning to employ more doctors, pharmacists and community healthworkers to provide diabetes care at the doorstep of the poor. Novo Nordisk will be leveraging existing network of healthcare institutions, and this programme is primarily targeted […]

September 15, 2012

Making medical care affordable in developing countries – with the crowd’s help

Watsi is the name of an innovative social enterprise which is like Kiva for healthcare. Watsi.com is a medical crowdfunding platform which its founder, Chase Adam, having seen people giving money to a woman showing them her son’s medical bills, was sure would work. Read more here.

September 15, 2012

Innovations in African healthcare scenario

This post enlists a number of process and technology innovations which have been helping the upward development progress curve in Africa rise steeper. This list features a few healthcare innovations too – the Cardiopad, Sickle cell disease research, and the Tutu van. Read more here.

September 15, 2012

Negative impacts of health due to poor housing

This post concentrates on the effects of poorly structured unorganized housing at the bottom of the pyramid, which usually makes for non-sustenance of health in the long run for the poor people who live in such houses. Read more here.

September 15, 2012

India: Getting India’s public healthcare ‘out of the ICU’

This post talks about the real issues being faced by the poor who are uninsured against illnesses in the developing world, and in this case, in India. The writer, who is a professor of public policy suggests a number of sectors which should be focussed on to solve the problem […]

September 15, 2012

South Africa: Some too poor to avail free healthcare

A study by UCT (University of Cape Town) on two South African communities came out with the dismal result that there exist those who are too poor to avail even the free healthcare services provided by the government, mostly because they cannot afford the cost of transportation. Read more here.

September 15, 2012

Nigeria’s poor healthcare system worries medical experts

Healthcare professionals took the opportunity at the start of the 48th Annual Scientific Conference/AGM in Benin to berate the dismal healthcare provision conditions in the country. Read more here.