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Indian households’ healthcare woes
The low penetration of health insurance and high health costs expose Indian households, especially those at the bottom of the pyramid, to severe financial shocks, according to fresh data from a large-scale nationally representative survey.
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- South Asia
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Ethiopia’s Great Health Reform
Edna lives in a village on the outskirts of Berhale, roughly 900 kilometres from Addis Ababa. Every day, she travels through the desert to deliver essential health services to families' doorsteps. As a front -line health worker, Edna is part of a historic movement that has extended primary health care to the poorest and most marginalised communities and saved millions of lives.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Social startup creates business-in-a-box solution to empower women
When digital strategist Jovana Korac first heard that many South African girls missed school because they couldn’t afford to buy sanitary products, she was appalled. It isn’t a South Africa-only problem either.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Superstrains of Rice That Will Feed A Changing World
“I’m Swamp Girl,” says Indrastuti Rumanti, a bubbly scientist with the Indonesian Center for Rice Research. She’s just ducked out of a lengthy meeting with her fellow rice-heads here in Bogor, but the conference room is not Rumanti’s preferred habitat: She’d rather be mucking about in experimental rice paddies.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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- Asia Pacific
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- research
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Baxter Buys Claris’ Generic Injectables Subsidiary for $625M
Claris Injectables will add to Baxter’s sterile medication production and delivery offerings, the buyer said, by adding capabilities in production of essential generic injectable medicines—such as anesthesia and analgesics, renal, anti-infectives, and critical care—in a variety of presentations including bags, vials, and ampoules.
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Govt urges private health care providers to set up centres in rural areas
The government urged private health care providers to set up centres in semi-rural and rural areas in order to bridge the disparity in availability of healthcare services between urban and rural areas.
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A startup in Kenya is launching “Uber for ambulances”
In Nairobi, most things can be ordered from your phone—an Uber, or taxi from one of several other taxi hailing app companies, a boda boda driver to run an errand for you on his bike, and dinner from a restaurant across town or just groceries from down the street. Soon, Nairobians will also be able order an ambulance from their phones.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Health to Humanity Uses Bath Amenity to Train African Entrepreneurs
"What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization,” said Dr. Abraham Maslow, a psychologist who, in 1943, wrote about his theory on human’s hierarchy of needs.
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- North America
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