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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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Antibiotic Alternatives Rev Up Bacterial Arms Race
More than eight decades have passed since Alexander Fleming’s discovery of a fungus that produced penicillin — a breakthrough that ultimately spawned today’s multibillion-dollar antibiotics industry. Researchers are now looking to nature with renewed vigor for other ways of fighting infection.
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Could Viagra make it harder to spread malaria?
Researchers from the Pasteur Institute in Paris found that drugs like Viagra may be effective in preventing malaria from spreading from person to person by stiffening up the parasite that causes it.
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Inequality Has Transformed Surviving Childhood Into a Global Postcode Lottery
You may already know the grim statistics: every day, 17,000 children under the age of five die; nearly half of them are newborn babies.
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- Health Care
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Khushi Baby: A High-Tech Way to Track Infant Health
It looks like a dangling, shiny plastic charm, but it’s actually an innovative high-tech device that may revolutionize health care in India. This is Khushi Baby, a small medical device designed to streamline the process of vaccinating children in the developing world.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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Smokeless Tobacco – A Major Cause for Concern in India
Wrapped inside betel leaves and placed in the corner of the mouth, chewing tobacco has been a practice in India for centuries.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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