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Health Care Dominates Borrowing in Global South
With policyMakers in emerging market economies stepping up the focus on financial inclusion, India and China have seen the strongest growth in account ownership between 2011 and 2014. If the findings of the World Bank-Gallup Global Findex Survey 2014, which asked over 1,50,000 respondents in 143 countries how and why they access financial services, were to be plotted on a map though, there is a very clear North-South divide in terms of where people spend their borrowed money.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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Affordable and Effective Vaccine Brings Africa Close to Elimination of Meningitis A
For a century, epidemics of meningococcal A meningitis, a bacterial infection of the lining of the brain and spinal cord, have swept across 26 countries in sub-Saharan Africa killing and disabling young people every year. The disease is highly feared on the continent; it can kill or cause severe brain damage within hours.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- vaccines
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World Bank Warns Climate Change Could Add 100 Million Poor By 2030
Without the right policies to keep the poor safe from extreme weather and rising seas, climate change could drive over 100 million more people into poverty by 2030, the World Bank said on Sunday.
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- Agriculture, Environment, Health Care
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- climate change
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Nigeria Tops African Medical Tourism to India Chart
Nigeria is leading the chart of Africans seeking medical care in India, with about 42.4 per cent.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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University Returns $1 Million Grant to Coca-Cola
The University of Colorado School of Medicine announced Friday that it was returning a $1 million gift from Coca-Cola after it was revealed that the money had been used to establish an advocacy group that played down the link between soft drinks and obesity.
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- Health Care
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- research
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Uganda Leads Push for Permanent Waiver on Drug Patents
Uganda is leading the world’s least developed countries (LDCs) in the ongoing showdown talks at the World Trade Organisation headquarters in Geneva, where America remains the only powerful country still refusing to grant a permanent waiver on patents on medicines.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Historic Trade Deal Confirms Critics’ Worst Fears
The United States government released the final text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership on Thursday, and a wide array of advocacy groups did not like what they saw.
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- Health Care
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Indian Student Designs Cardboard Baby Incubator in UK
Indian student has developed a low-cost cardboard baby incubator that that could help save millions of lives in countries like India which lack grassroots-level infrastructure for neonatal care of premature and underweight infants.
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- Health Care
- Region
- South Asia