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  Produced in partnership: Duty of Care

  Financial incentives for frontline health workers

  30 Oct 2020

  Leading global health organizations and researchers spoke to Devex about how to create financial incentive packages that achieve a "triple win” for health workers, health systems, and populations in low-resource countries.

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  Focus on: Future of Health Partnerships

  Focus on: Future of Health Partnerships

  Can PPPs help ensure vaccine supplies for future global epidemics?

  3 Sep 2018

  Public-private partnerships aim to bridge the gap between an uncertain market demand and the collective need to prepare for deadly diseases. Devex asked several leaders in global health how the response to the latest Ebola outbreak can inform preparedness against other lethal infectious diseases.

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  Focus on: Future of Health Partnerships

  Focus on: Future of Health Partnerships

  Q&A: How is Ghana engaging corporations in malaria control?

  10 Jul 2018

  Dwindling donor funds has Ghana turning to public-private partnerships to help fight malaria. Devex sits down with Keziah Malm, manager of the country's National Malaria Control Programme, to find out how they are engaging corporate Ghana in malaria control.

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  Focus On: Future of Health Partnerships

  Focus On: Future of Health Partnerships

  Ghana PPP pilots breakthrough insecticide to fight mosquito resistance

  10 Jul 2018

  Indoor residual spraying is a vital strategy in the fight against malaria — but until recently, a lack of new insecticides alongside market barriers meant it was on the decline. Then came a breakthrough.

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  Focus on: Future of Health Partnerships

  Focus on: Future of Health Partnerships

  Q&A: Unitaid looks to break down silos for better global health

  10 Jul 2018

  Sanne Fournier-Wendes, senior adviser to Unitaid’s executive director, explains to Devex how the organization is engaging with the private sector to push forward an integrated approach to global health.

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  Conservation

  Conservation

  Q&A: Why conservation must include indigenous rights

  6 Jul 2018

  Traditional conservation strategies have sometimes seen local communities driven from their land in an attempt to protect it — but there should be no conflict between conservation efforts and indigenous rights, says U.N. special rapporteur Victoria Tauli-Corpuz.

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  Conservation

  Conservation

  What you need to know from the Oslo Tropical Forest Forum

  2 Jul 2018

  Preserving tropical forests is critical to climate change mitigation efforts, but 39 million acres were lost last year. Devex rounds up some of the key takeaways from this year's Oslo Tropical Forest Forum on how to halt the loss.

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  Data Guardians

  Data Guardians

  7 steps to securing mHealth data in low-resource settings

  30 May 2018

  When running a mobile health project in a low-resource setting, how do you make sure the data you are collecting from patients is both easily accessible and secure? The partners behind a major mHealth platform in Mozambique walk Devex through their process.

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  Disease eradication

  Disease eradication

  Q&A: How South Sudan stopped Guinea worm disease in its tracks

  26 Mar 2018

  South Sudan, once the most Guinea worm endemic territory in the world, has stopped transmission of the disease, it was announced last week. Devex spoke to Adam Weiss, associate director of the Guinea Worm Eradication Program at The Carter Center, to find out how the milestone was achieved despite an unstable and low-resource environment — and what's next for the international eradication effort as it enters its final stretch.

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  World Tuberculosis Day

  World Tuberculosis Day

  Q&A: What does 2018 hold for the fight against TB?

  23 Mar 2018

  Ahead of World Tuberculosis Day on Saturday, Devex speaks to Lucica Ditiu, executive director of the Stop TB Partnership, as she gears up for what could be a breakthrough year on one of the world's deadliest diseases.

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