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Novartis Social Business Head: Achieving Universal Health Coverage Requires Public-Private Partnerships

                  All too often public health policymakers and officials tend to treat private sector healthcare providers as either a distraction, an impediment or even an active adversary. But that’s shortsighted, according to Novartis head of social business Harald Nusser and Jeffrey Sturchio, CEO at Rabin Martin, a […]

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MMV & Novartis: Solving market failure while saving children’s lives – the case of malaria

  By Dr David Reddy, Chief Executive Officer of the Medicines for Malaria Venture, and Dr Harald Nusser, Head of Novartis Social Business   In the 1990s, treating children with malaria in Africa was a grueling experience. The parasite had become resistant to the most common antimalarial treatments, and death rates were climbing – fast. […]

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Winning The War Against Malaria

  By Roger Bate   When former US President George W. Bush announced the President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI) in 2005, nearly a million people were dying from malaria each year—most of them young children in sub-Saharan Africa. Today is World Malaria Day, and it’s a good time to take stock of progress.   In the […]