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President Obama Announces Major Progress Through Feed the Future Initiative
On July 28 President Obama announced that Feed the Future, his signature global hunger and food security initiative, is delivering on his promise to reduce hunger and malnutrition through agricultural development. New data demonstrate that, thanks in part to Feed the Future and other U.S. Government efforts, stunting rates have declined in Ethiopia, Ghana, and parts of Kenya by between 9 and 33 percent in recent years, while areas in Uganda have seen a 16 percent drop in poverty.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- nutrition
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A Paper Microscope That Costs Only 50 cents Can Detect Malaria From Just a Drop of Blood – And It Could Revolutionize Medicine
For a whole lot of people, especially those in developing countries, science - and with it, medicine - isn't readily available to the majority of citizens. But Manu Prakash wants to change that.
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How a Condom and a Catheter Are Saving Mothers From Bleeding to Death During Delivery
An innovation that costs less than $5, and requires items that could be found in any drug store, could save thousands of mothers’ lives.
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- Health Care
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India Showing Improved Consumer Sentiment: Rakesh Kapoor, CEO, Reckitt Benckiser
Rakesh Kapoor, chief executive at British consumer goods firm Reckitt Benckiser, on Monday said India is showing "improvement in consumer sentiment" even as the maker of Dettol antiseptic liquid and Durex condoms reported better-than-expected performance for the quarter ended June.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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How Anti-Vaxxers Have Scared the Media Away From Covering Vaccine Side Effects
"It was the most startling side effect I've ever come across." That's how Elizabeth Miller, head of the immunization department at Public Health England, described some recent vaccine research you've probably never heard about: Pandemrix, a shot designed to stave off swine flu, also appears to be causing narcolepsy in some children.
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- Health Care
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- public policy, vaccines
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Kerala Selects HP India to Provide Digital Healthcare Solution
The Department of Health and Family Welfare, Government of Kerala, has selected HP India to create an e-Health IT platform to enable the delivery of a digital healthcare solution and services for Health Care facilities across Kerala. The digital healthcare solution will help healthcare practitioners to improve patient care and focus resources.
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- South Asia
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Fight Against Tropical Diseases Is Framed As Efficient
In the battle for the billions of dollars spent fighting global diseases, doctors who tackle neglected tropical diseases have labeled their struggle a “best buy.”
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Nigeria’s Ministry of Health Accuses Okonjo-Iweala of Making Questionable Payment to Global Health NGO
ficials of Nigeria’s Federal Ministry of Health (FMOH) are questioning how former Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala handled payment of the sum of $2.2 million that was the subject of a dispute between the Health Ministry and a global non-governmental organization called the Global Alliance for Vaccine and Immunization (GAVI). Former Nigerian Minister of Finance, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- vaccines
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