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Top 10 Global Health Issues to Watch in 2014
The past year has given us plenty of global health successes to celebrate.
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- Education, Health Care
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- nutrition
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Surgery Goes Global
Drafting a plan for universal access to surgical care
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- Education, Health Care
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Pearson announces joint venture secondary schooling investment with Ayala in the Philippines
Pearson is the world's leading learning company.
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- Education
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- Asia Pacific
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‘Leaning In’ And ‘Pulling Up’: Women’s Economic Equality In The Middle East
According to Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg, too few women are making it to the top, mainly because of socialized gender roles.This rings especially true in the Arab World’s Gulf States, where women often represent a more educated talent pool than the rest of the population, but struggle especially hard against convention, or workplace expectations.
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- Education
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Kids and Money: Watch the replay of our Google Hangout with Jeroo Billimoria, founder of Child and Youth Finance International (and eight other social enterprises)
Pioneering social entrepreneur Jeroo Billimoria is the founder of several award-winning international NGOs, and is perhaps best known for her work promoting financial capability among young people. She joined NextBillion Financial Innovation via Google Hangouts for a fascinating Q&A.
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- Education
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GE Healthcare & IIT Madras ink 3-year R&D pact to accelerate innovation for a healthier India
GE Healthcare, the US$ 18 billion healthcare business of General Electric Company and Healthcare Technology Innovation Centre (HTIC), a multi-disciplinary R&D centre of IIT Chennai have entered into a three-year collaborative research and development agreement for innovating a range of disruptive and affordable healthcare solutions.
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- Education, Health Care
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Chagas Disease: Urgent Measures Are Needed
Global health topics are typically presented in the context of extreme poverty in sub-Saharan Africa or Asia. However, today approximately 100 million people in the Western Hemisphere also live on less than $2 per day. About 10 percent of these "bottom 100 million" currently live with a serious and life-threatening neglected disease known as Chagas disease or American trypanosomiasis.
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- Education, Health Care
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‘Micro-insurance Impacts Significantly on Social Indices’
The Micro-insurance Network, the International Labour Organisation’s (ILO’s) micro-insurance innovation facility, has said that micro-insurance has impacted positively on the standard of living of low income earners across the world.
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- Education, Impact Assessment