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Helping Smallholders Grow a Pharmacy on their Farms
Eliminating hidden hunger is not easy, but with resources in the right place, with governments, donors and civil society working together and with the right policies developed, BRAC believes it can introduce poor children in developing countries to a nutritious vegetable – the orange-fleshed sweet potato – they will come to favor.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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- nutrition
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Rotavirus Vaccine Developed Under Make in India Initiative
J P Nadda, Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare attended a function for the national launch of the Rotavirus vaccine as part of the Universal Immunisation Programme (UIP).
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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- vaccines
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Patent case in India highlights tensions between public health, protecting innovation
A recent case in India highlights some of the intersections between drug affordability, the need for patent protection on innovation, and differences between national patent law.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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- innovation
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Could Harvesting Fog Help Solve the World’s Water Crisis?
March 22 markted the first anniversary of an ambitious international collaboration between Dar Si Hmad, a Moroccan N.G.O., and several German partner organizations to bring potable water to the Aït Baâmrane tribal region of southwest Morocco using a technology called CloudFisher.
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- Health Care
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- Latin America
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Health Workers: A Triple Return for Health, Economic Growth, and Employment
Creating more jobs for health workers holds the potential to bolster health and health security, spur inclusive economic growth, and empower women and youth, WHO Director-General Dr Margaret Chan said today after the first meeting of the Commission on Health Employment and Economic Growth Lyon, France.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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IKEA Foundation Opens Clean Water Access Through Micro-finance Loans
In cooperation with Water.org, the IKEA Foundation will enable 300,000 people to access clean water and sanitation over the next four years through a micro-finance loan program, foundation CEO Per Heggenes said during a discussion in Jakarta.
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- Health Care
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- Asia Pacific
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- microfinance
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China’s Contribution to Global Health Security Through Pharma Partnerships
One of the major challenges in developing new medical countermeasures against threats to global health security—be it a new flu pandemic or rapid spread of a neglected disease—is the lack of an underlying commercial market to support the financial investment needed for expeditious drug development and scale-up. This challenge was demonstrated at the outset of the 2014 Ebola outbreak: even though the lethal virus was known for nearly 40 years, there was no cure or vaccine on the market. Paradoxically, while political attention to global health issues has revved up since the Ebola outbreak, funding is as short as ever when it comes to research and development (R&D) to address novel or neglected diseases. The funding shortage could be exacerbated by competing global challenges such as the need to raise money for funding the initiatives of the COP21 and implementation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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Pfizer Joins Human Vaccines Project
Pfizer said today it will join the Human Vaccines Project, a public–private consortium focused on speeding up development of vaccines and immunotherapies against major infectious diseases and cancers by decoding the human immune system.
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- Health Care