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iDE Cambodia hits 100,000 toilet sales in 2 years
iDE Cambodia has facilitated the sale of 100,000 Easy Latrines in two years through sanitation marketing, reaching an estimated 470,000 people, according to a June 14 press release.
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British Medical Journal article on graft in Indian healthcare creates stir
A British Medical Journal (BMJ) article on corruption in Indian healthcare is creating a flutter in the medical community and policy experts. Written by Australian medical practitioner Dr David Berger who volunteered as a physician at a charitable hospital in the Himalayas, the article titled “Corruption ruins the doctor-patient relationship in India” highlights how “kickbacks and bribes oil every part of the healthcare machinery” and says there is a “lack of the will to reform these practices”.
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Reserve Bank of India testing mobile-based payments system linked to Aadhaar national ID platform
Despite uncertainty surrounding Aadhar's future, RBI is testing a mobile-based payments system linked to this platform
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Google announces ‘Android One’ standard for affordable devices, arriving first in India at under $100
Google has revealed a new program called Android One which will specify a set of hardware and software guidelines for device makers to adhere to if they wish to attain official ‘Android One’ status.
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Why USAID is shifting maternal health funds toward Africa, Asia
ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA — The US Agency for International Development announced today that 26 countries have done so well at achieving maternal and child health goals that they’re now on their own. Their funding will instead go to 24 countries where mothers and children are still dying at alarming rates.
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India’s microfinance sector set to rebound, says rating agency
Crisil says, loan portfolios of microfinance companies to grow at a compounded annual rate of 35%, to touch Rs450 billion by March 2016
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Big tobacco snubs health warning law in Indonesia
Tobacco companies have largely snubbed an Indonesian law requiring them to put graphic health warnings on all cigarette packs, another setback for anti-smoking efforts in a country that's home to the world's highest rate of male smokers and a wild, wild west of advertising.
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Inaugural CAMTech India ‘Jugaad-a-thon’ launched
Kolkata, June 24 (IBNS): CAMTech India, a new United States Agency for International Development (USAID/India) funded public-private partnership to accelerate medical technology innovation for reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health (RMNCH) in India, announced its first medical technology hack-a-thon in Bangalore on July 18-20.
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