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Viewpoint: The World’s New Health Goal Will Need Game-Changing Health Technologies
Ensuring healthy lives and promoting well-being for everyone at any age is a tall order, particularly if the aim is to achieve this by 2030. Yet this is the mandate of the third Sustainable Development Goal (SDG3), one of a set of 17 global goals designed to guide development priorities for the next 15 years.
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- Environment, Health Care
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WHO Declares Liberia Ebola-Free for Second Time
The World Health Organization Thursday declared Liberia Ebola-free for the second time.The declaration for the second time follows an outbreak of the disease in Lower Margibi County that claimed three lives days after the country was first declared Ebola-free by the WHO.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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FAO and MasterCard Join Forces on Financial Inclusion
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and MasterCard are joining forces to create an innovative new alliance against hunger.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Zimbabwe Running Out of BCG Vaccine
Zimbabwe is running short of BCG vaccine meant to protect newborn babies from contracting tuberculosis (TB) — one of the six infant killer diseases.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- vaccines
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Dutch Social Entrepreneur Works To Save Lives In Africa With High Tech Stove
Judith Joan Walker, director and COO of African Clean Energy, has started manufacturing and distributing a multifunctional cookstove that doubles as an energy source.
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- Energy, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Technology Meets the ‘Loo’: Women-led business utilizes bio-toilets to overcome infrastructure challenges
Namita Banka, a former jewelry designer, took a course in social entreprepreneurship in 2009 and emerged ready to make a difference in her community. A few years later, she incorporated Banka BioLoo to produce environmentally friendly bio-toilets. Here, Sanjay Banka, Namita's husband, talks about the business and the cultural obstacles it's working to overcome.
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- Agriculture, Environment, Health Care, Technology
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- public health
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Five Studies: Why IUDs Are Poised to Become the Future of Birth Control
After decades out of favor, the intrauterine device is making a comeback. This small, T-shaped form of birth control, which is placed in a woman’s uterus and prevents pregnancy for between three and 10 years, has carried a stigma in the United States ever since the 1970s, when one notoriously flawed model, the Dalkon Shield, caused septic miscarriages and infertility in thousands of American women. But now, health-care providers are trumpeting the safety—and efficacy—of the models currently on the market. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists concluded as early as 2005 that IUDs and hormonal implants (which are inserted in a woman’s arm) are the most reliable forms of birth control, and should be among the top options offered to all women; the American Academy of Pediatrics released a similar recommendation in 2014.
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- Health Care
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Muhammad Yunus’ Firm in Talks for Social Business JVs in India
Nobel laureate and founder of Grameen Bank, Muhammad Yunus, is all set to roll out his flagship social business, in a joint venture with corporates in India soon. Yunus’ social business marketing company — Yunus Social Business (YSB) India —is in talks with a slew of corporates in India who can be joint venture partners in the social business venture, a model where profits are ploughed back to the company. These profits can be then used for employment generation and affordable healthcare.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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