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Even as the world Kidney Day this year is focusing on Kidney Health for Everyone Everywhere, a new study by the George Institute for Global Health has identified barriers and enablers that impact care to patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) in rural India.

$53 million cash injection from Australian investors - one of the country’s largest-ever private-public health partnerships. 
Funds set to accelerate research and development by George Health and George Medicines – companies established by one of the world’s leading medical research institutes.

In what could come as a big boost to control of hypertension in rural areas of the country, a new study has provided fresh evidence that a low-cost education and monitoring intervention delivered by community health workers is effective in controlling blood pressure and is potentially scalable in resource-poor settings in India and globally.