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Viewpoint: New Global Focus Placed on Reducing Anemia in Adolescent Girls
Recently, the World Health Assembly set out new global nutrition targets. These targets will guide and influence priorities in health programming and investments. One such ambitious goal is to see a 50 per cent reduction of anemia in women of reproductive age by 2025.
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- Health Care
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WHO Expands Postpartum Family Planning, Increasing Chances for Maternal and Child Survival
The fifth edition of the Medical Eligibility Criteria for Contraceptive Use has been released and it could significantly change the family planning (FP) landscape in developing countries, expanding access to long-acting contraceptives and reducing the unmet FP needs of 225 million women.
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- Health Care
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‘One in 10 Malaria Drugs in Nigeria Is of Poor Quality’
New research released recently has indicated that substandard medicines are more prevalent than fake ones in world's most malaria-burdened country, Nigeria.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Rajasthan-based Karma Healthcare raises investment from Ennovent Impact Investment Holding
Ennovent Impact Investment Holding on Monday said it has invested an undisclosed in Rajasthan-based healthcare provider Karma Healthcare.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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Profit From a Cause
Making and selling portable toilets? Investors wrinkled their noses when Rajeev Kher, Managing Director of Pune-based Saraplast Pvt Ltd, first sought funds from them in 1999. Sixteen years later, the toilets have been such a success that he is spoilt for choice as he looks for a third round of funding. "My company has been profitable for a long time," he says. "But I will never forget that when I started off, it was Aavishkar which came forward to support me."
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- Health Care, Investing
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- South Asia
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South Africa: KZN Launches Human Milk Banks
Far too few South African women practice exclusive breastfeeding and, as a result, far too many children are dying.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Twitter Top Ten
Unlike in the world of global soccer, this week in global development was marked by a fair amount of positive news. We captured some of it in this week’s Top Ten list, which features everything from mobile money momentum and impact investing resources, to promising health care innovations - along with a couple of cool videos.
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- Agriculture, Health Care, Technology
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Weekly Roundup: Fewer hungry people, a lot more patents and a spotlight on the whiteness of NGOs
A bit of good news floated across the news wires this week: The number of hungry people in the world has dropped dramatically. Considering the drop in hunger, perhaps it’s not a coincidence that as a globe, we never been more inventive, according to a surge in patents.
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- Agriculture, Health Care, Technology
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