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Surgical Intervention: How to Improve Access to Surgical Care in the Developing World
Access to surgical and anaesthetic care is an essential, but often forgotten, component of health care in the developing world.
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- Health Care
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- public policy
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The shipping containers tackling South Africa’s chronic childcare shortages
A social enterprise operating out of repurposed shipping containers is helping to tackle Cape Town’s lack of childcare facilities.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Survey: Majority of population exposed to unsafe drinking water
The majority of the population in Pakistan is exposed to the hazards of drinking unsafe and polluted water from both surface and ground water sources.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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- South Asia
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- public health
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Launching Products that Meet Needs: Addressing market demand through user-centered development
Health care products generated through a holistic process that starts with good product development, and incorporates public health and commercialization perspectives throughout the process, are more likely to meet the needs of the intended user groups and other key stakeholders.
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- Health Care, Technology
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We Won’t Meet Health-Related SDGs If We Don’t Invest in Innovation
The sustainable development goals won’t be finalized until September, but people are already debating whether we can reach them. At least for the proposed health targets one thing is clear, they won’t be achieved without innovations that make better health care more affordable, accessible and effective. #GlobalGoalsWork, but only if we have the tools we need to reach them.
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- Education, Health Care
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- research
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Africa: What’s Driving Ethiopia’s Remarkable Improvements in Nutritional Health?
Since 2000, Ethiopia has been doing something right in early childhood nutrition. Under-five child stunting rates have dropped from 58 percent to 40 percent, child wasting has dropped below 10 percent, and the prevalence of underweight in young children has declined from 41 to 25 percent.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- nutrition
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Some 400 million lack healthcare worldwide: WHO and World Bank
An estimated 400 million people worldwide lack access to at least one of seven essential health services, ranging from pregnancy care to clean water, according to a report released on Friday by the World Health Organization and World Bank.
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Gavi to heighten engagement with countries transitioning into Vaccine Alliance
The Vaccine Alliance recently announced a series of actions that will support the new goals of the Alliance’s 2016-20 strategy, and the Gavi Board has chosen to assist the countries making the transition into the new practices.
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- Health Care
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- vaccines
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