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Creating ‘Solavores’ By Thinking Inside the Box
Solavore, launched last year, sells solar ovens in the developed world and uses the profits to subsidize clean-cooking technology for the 2.7 billion people in the developing world for whom wood fire is the only cooking option, with the inevitable result: lung damage.
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- Energy, Health Care, Social Enterprise
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- climate health, solar
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OraSure gets Zika funding
OraSure Technologies will get federal funding to develop a Zika test despite Congress' failure to allocate money to fight the mosquito-borne disease. The south Bethlehem diagnostics company announced Tuesday it had been awarded a contract for up to $16.6 million from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
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- Health Care
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Cost Of Healthy Living: Coca-Cola May Shut Down South African Plant Over Sugar Tax
Coca-Cola Beverages Africa, the continent’s largest soft drinks bottler, may close business in South Africa if the government goes ahead with a proposed tax of 20 percent on sugary drinks from April 1, 2017 in a bid to curb obesity and unhealthy diets.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- public health
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Paper-based Test Identifies Bogus and Poor Quality Drugs
Counterfeit and substandard medications are a serious problem in the developing world, potentially harming patients who desperately need medical treatment. Some of these drugs — including the antibiotics ciprofloxacin and ceftriaxone — have been deemed essential by the World Health Organization for the treatment of infections.
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- Health Care
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Liberian Nurses Learn to Spot Danger Signs in Babies as Healthcare Gets Shot in Arm
The Well Baby clinic in Buchanan is busy. But that’s not unusual. The clinic, a two-hour drive from Liberia’s capital, Monrovia, sees between 700 and 1,000 mothers and children each week.
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- Education, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- public health
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As globe-threatening yellow fever epidemic explodes in Congo, people ask ‘where is the vaccine?’
Here in Kinshasa, they’re using bug spray to repel a pandemic. At first glance, it looks like a bloody ambush on civilians: Dozens in uniform are storming into a bustling marketplace bearing on their shoulders what look like bazookas.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Africa’s Health Strategy Can Benefit India’s Pharma Firms
With a $106.8 million strategy to tackle Africa's public health emergencies over the next five years, stakeholders here feel it will be an ideal opportunity for the Indian pharma companies to take advantage, with Cipla taking the lead.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- public health, research
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Weekly Roundup: Foundation Under Fire, Hartigan Remembered and Blockchain Unchained
NB's editors pay their respects to social entrepreneurship pioneer Pamela Hartigan, ponder the future of the Clinton Foundation, discuss blockchain technology's march toward the development sector mainstream, opine on Michael Bloomberg's new role with the World Health Organization, and wonder why, if everyone's talking about "rigorous research," no one is using it?
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- Health Care, Technology
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- blockchain, research
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