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An easier way to manipulate malaria genes
New approach to knocking out parasite’s genes could make it easier to identify drug targets.
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- Education, Health Care
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The remarkable impact of secondary education on women’s health
For the first time, there is strong evidence to support the claim that girls education is a great investment. But it goes further than that. Secondary education might be the best way to improve the health of both mothers and their children.
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- Education, Health Care, Impact Assessment
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- public health, research
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OPINION: Why Global Health Researchers Should Climb Down From the Ivory Tower
In the late 1970s, the Chicago Police Department noticed that the city’s crime rate increased when cops stopped walking the beat and started driving around in patrol cars instead.
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- Education, Health Care
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Innovations in Education: What CEI has learned in its first year, and what’s ahead
In its first year, the Center for Education Innovations has documented close to 500 programs serving the poor in more than 135 countries. Next up: Understanding more about what works, why and how.
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- Education, Impact Assessment
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Science focus urged at first US-African leaders summit
Science and technology must be at the heart of the debate at the first-ever US-Africa Leaders Summit that starts today, policy experts argue, as they call for 100,000 new science graduate places in the United States for Africans over the next ten years.
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- Education, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- research
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Target ‘zero’: Going full force against malaria in Asia
Anti-malaria efforts have been gaining significant traction and progress in the past couple of years, particularly in Africa, with a 54 percent decline in child malaria deaths.
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- Education, Health Care
- Region
- South Asia
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Weekly Roundup – 8/2/14: The NextBillion Case Writing Competition is returning for 2015
We’re thrilled to announce the return of the NextBillion Case Writing Competition, sponsored by the Citi Foundation and managed by GlobaLens. The 2015 contest will represent the fifth edition of the competition, which has attracted hundreds of entries from professors and students from dozens of countries around the world.
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- Education
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- research
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WHO: Ebola Spread Outpaces Control Effort
The head of the World Health Organization has told the presidents of West African nations stricken by Ebola that the outbreak is moving faster than efforts to control it.
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- Education, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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