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Industry Emerging from the Rubble in Haiti: How building skills locally through community networks can create sustainable businesses
Throughout the street markets in Port-au-Prince, a growing corps of entrepreneurs – mostly women – is helping the fuel-efficient stove market take root, showing how empowered local businesses, even in the poorest and most difficult-to-navigate environments, can create sustainable enterprises that employ and train local workers.
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Kenya Slum Mathare Gets Cheap Water Through ATMs
Residents of the Mathare slum area of Kenya's capital, Nairobi, are now able to access water through an ATM-style dispenser.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Indonesian Lawmakers Want to Fight AIDS By Restricting Access to Condoms
Want to stop the spread of HIV? Limit the availability of condoms. So goes the reasoning behind a draft law being developed in the Bengkulu province of Indonesia, on the southwest coast of Sumatra.
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- South Asia
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Mobile Device Uses the Net to Tackle Deafness
About 3-million people in SA suffer from hearing loss. Every year, about 4,000 people become deaf due to antiretroviral and tuberculosis treatment. Early detection through screening tests could halve this number.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Citizen Media Shows Why India Is Unlikely to Reach Its Millennium Goals Target for Maternal Mortality
According to the UN Millennium Development Goals, India should bring down its maternal mortality rate (MMR) to 109 per 100,000 live births by 2015. This is a tough ask, as from an MMR of 437 per 100,000 live births in 1990-91 India has only achieved a reduction to 190 by 2013-2014. Experts therefore believe that India is likely to miss its Millennium Development Goals target for MMR.
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Guess Which Country Has The Biggest Increase In Soda Drinking
The Big Soda companies are spending money to develop new markets in low- and middle-income countries. In some of these places, people are earning a bit more than a few years before, so they have more money for soda.
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- Education, Health Care
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South Africa: Dumping of Condoms May Flaw Distribution Numbers Says DA
Recent boasts by the national and provincial health departments at the recent SA Aids Conference held in Durban about how successfully condoms were being distributed may in fact be flawed.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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WHO names Vietnam a new global vaccine supplier
Vietnam has become the 37th country and the fifth in the Western Pacific meeting requirements to produce vaccines for the global market, the World Health Organization said.
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- South Asia
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