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The future of nursing: STTI announces new global health initiative
The Honor Society of Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau International (STTI) announces the creation of the Global Advisory Panel on the Future of Nursing (GAPFON). The inaugural meeting of GAPFON - a panel of international nurse leaders - convened to establish a global voice and vision for the future of nursing that will advance global health. The panel is chaired by Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing Dean Emerita and Professor Dr. Martha N. Hill.
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- Education, Health Care
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‘Nothing can stop’ fight against female genital mutilation — advocacy group
More than 125 million girls and women have undergone female genital mutilation worldwide, and another 30 million are at risk of being cut over the next decade — yet few interventions have focused on stopping the practice, and previous United Nations targets and pledges to end FGM within a generation have failed.
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- Education, Health Care
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Rural Health Care Blamed for Infant Deaths in Kolkata, India
The national headlines in September were grimmer than usual, with newspapers blaring “Infant Death Horror” and “West Bengal Health Care in I.C.U.” on their front pages after 41 newborns died in B.C. Roy Memorial Hospital over a span of six days.
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- Education, Health Care
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- South Asia
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Sustaining Recent Social Progress May Require a Squeeze on the Rich
Latin Americans, the past dozen years have been remarkable. The region has seen a magical combination of faster economic growth, falling poverty and declining income inequality. Is this unprecedented period of progress over?
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- Education
- Region
- Latin America
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- governance
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Congratulations to the 2014 NextBillion Case Writing Competition Winners
Expanding solar products in Africa, reducing infant blindness for premature babies in India, branding an organic biodegradable chewing gum from farmers in Mexico - these were among the winning business cases in our annual competition.
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- Education
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It’s Time to WASH Up: Three lessons for developing effective water, sanitation and hygiene interventions
The lack of access to safe sanitation and clean water holds back social and economic development through negative impacts on health, education and livelihoods. Research shows the situation can be improved through interventions that place an emphasis on the end beneficiary and leverage local private-public expertise in design and delivery.
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- Agriculture, Education, Health Care
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‘Learning together’ to grow a business in the plains of Tanzania
When Hailey Chalhoub and Eliza Madden, both 22, were sent to Tabora in northeastern Tanzania to help its residents with a nascent food processing business, they had their marching orders: make a profit.
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- Education, Health Care
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Malaria research funding website leaves limited legacy
A website intended to rewrite the rules of how malaria research is funded failed to exploit the early potential of social media to link the public with researchers — but its one achievement, a new mosquito repellent is due to hit Tanzania’s market early next year.
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- Education, Health Care
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- crowdfunding, research