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UPDATED Weekly Roundup: Haiti’s Peanut Pushback, Moms Vs. Markets and Should Google’s Payday Ban Apply to Microfinance?
This week in the roundup we consider the pushback of Haitian farmers and NGOs against the U.S. government's mass peanut donation, how marketers might be undermining mothers who breastfeed, and whether Google's ban on ads from payday lenders could justifiably be applied to microfinance.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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In Brazil, a New Zika Strategy: Billboards That Smell Like Humans and Kill Mosquitoes
There’s an impressive array of creative billboards in Brazil. One in Rio de Janeiro sprays mists of water to cool down beachgoers waiting for a bus home. But a new innovation recently unveiled in this city is plain lethal — at least for bugs.
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- Health Care
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- Latin America
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GE, Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship Partner for Health Challenges in Africa
GE and Santa Clara University’s Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship have announced a partnership that focuses on training and mentoring social entrepreneurs working on maternal and child health innovations in sub-Saharan Africa.
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- Health Care
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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A Breath Test for Malaria
Diagnosing malaria may soon be as easy taking a simple breath test, according to researchers.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Healthy Markets: Essential to Improving Health and Saving Lives
PATH, which for nearly 40 years has been working to understand and address market-based issues for medicines, vaccines, diagnostics and medical devices, recently compiled a diverse collection of blogs with the hope of elevating the role well-functioning markets play in supporting access to health products. We've featured one of these blogs here.
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- Health Care
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- public health
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How Kenyans Are Embracing Mobile Technology to Access Healthcare
It is estimated that more than half of Kenya’s population earning less than $2.50 (£1.73) per day has access to mobile phones. Kenya’s remarkable growth in mobile technology has led to a digital revolution that can address one of the country’s biggest development priorities – access to universal health coverage.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Laws to Protect Breastfeeding Inadequate
A new report by the WHO, UNICEF, and the International Baby Food Action Network (IBFAN) has revealed that the status of laws to protect breastfeeding in most countries is inadequate.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Opinion: Why … Rio de Janeiro’s 2016 Olympic Games Must Not Proceed
Zika infection is more dangerous, and Brazil’s outbreak more extensive, than scientists reckoned a short time ago. Which leads to a bitter truth: the 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games must be postponed, moved, or both, as a precautionary concession.
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- Health Care
- Region
- Latin America
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