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Empowering the Period: How Erasing the Menstruation Taboo Can Fight Extreme Poverty
Educated girls have smaller families and raise healthier and better-educated children. But a lack of supplies, toilets and privacy, compounded by fear and shame in an atmosphere that stigmatizes menstruation, prevent many impoverished girls from attending school once they reach puberty. There are some signs of positive change, however, with a growing number of organizations talking about “empowering the period.”
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- Education, Health Care, WASH
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Q&A: A conversation with Hilton Foundation CEO, Dhaka-awardee on health solutions
“It is easily, easily treatable if you know how to treat it,” said Clemens, a medical doctor with a background in infectious diseases. “The problem is that in many places where cholera occurs, the local health care providers and physicians don’t have the experience.”
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Medical loans: Oxxy making health care affordable
In a country where a majority of poor and middle class households do not have a safety net for tackling health expenses, Oxxy has offered a bouquet of services to have affordable options for its customer base, starting from getting them up to 50% discount on medical expenses to getting all the medical expenditure to be paid in easy monthly installments.
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India grants Pfizer patent on pneumonia vaccine in blow to aid group
The decision by India's patent office bars other companies from making cheaper copies of the vaccine and allows Pfizer to exclusively sell it in India until 2026. It's a big victory for the U.S. drugmaker in a market that has the world's largest number of pneumonia cases, a lung disease that kills nearly a million children a year globally.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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Bollywood’s hot new topics: open toilets, menstrual hygiene and erectile dysfunction
This is not about defecation,” says the hero of Toilet: Ek Prem Katha, which translates as Toilet: A Love Story. “It is about our whole way of thinking!” What makes this startling line all the more surprising is that it is delivered by Akshay Kumar, an actor straight out of the Bollywood A-list.
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A Woman In India Just Won A Divorce Over A Toilet. Here’s Why That Matters.
The family court hearing this woman’s case found the lack of a toilet cruel because it meant “outraging the modesty of a woman.” The court added, “We spend money on buying tobacco, liquor, and mobile phones, but are unwilling to construct toilets to protect the dignity of our family."
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- South Asia
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ARM backs Simprints $2.45m funding boost to prevent maternal and child deaths
After a rigorous review by global health experts, Cambridge startup Simprints was chosen among 15 of the world’s most promising ideas to save lives at birth in developing countries, edging out over 550 other applicants to secure millions in new funding to develop and refine its innovations.
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- Health Care, Technology
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How Your Business Can Help End the Global Water and Sanitation Crisis: Highlights from a New Report
Businesses are key to achieving Sustainable Development Goal 6, which calls for reaching everyone, everywhere with taps and toilets by 2030. A new report from WaterAid, CEO Water Mandate and WBCSD spells out an “ideal” approach to water, sanitation and hygiene which businesses could implement in their supply chains – and how that investment can contribute to core business values, both ethically and financially.
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- Environment, Health Care, WASH
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