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Why Water Is Key to Beating Poverty
Extreme poverty is one of humanity's grave injustices. Across the world, more than 1 billion people live on less than $1.50 a day for all their needs -- food, housing, medicine, water, sanitation, everything. What's more astonishing is that 748 million people around the world do not have access to clean water. And 2.5 billion people do not have access to basic sanitation -- that's one out of every three individuals on the planet. Think about that for a second.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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The Condom With the Most Studs in the World
Is there such thing as a perfect condom? The type of condom that’s effective, yet comfortable? One that adds excitement instead of interrupting the heat-of-the-moment?
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- Health Care
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New Ways of Delivering Healthcare
One of the biggest barriers to realising the national agenda of "healthcare for all" is tackling the existent complex, disorganised and expensive system of healthcare.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- South Asia
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Canada, India Fund 5 Innovations to Improve Health in India, With Focus on Mothers and Children
Grand Challenges Canada, funded by the Government of Canada, and the Grand Challenges India initiative of the Department of Biotechnology, Government of India, today announced an investment of $2.5 million (CAD) in five health innovations in India. Many of these novel projects aim to improve maternal, newborn and child health (known as 'MNCH'), which is Canada's flagship development priority, and a tremendous challenge for the Government of India.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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- impact investing
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Viewpoint: Health Can Tackle (and Measure) Inequities
We know that globally there are sufficient funds available to provide basic health services to everyone, everywhere.
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- Health Care
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- Europe & Eurasia
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Microinsurance Program Lets People Trade Their Garbage for Free Health Care in Indonesia
In what is an innovative first for the region, a company in Indonesia is now offering to recycle your trash for two free visits to the doctor. Now, how clever is that?
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- Health Care
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- Asia Pacific
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WHO Demands Disclosure of All Clinical Trial Results
The World Health Organization called on Tuesday for the release of clinical trial results for all drugs, vaccines and medical devices - whatever the result - in the latest salvo against the withholding of data.
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- Health Care
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- regulations, vaccines
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A Patch That Delivers Vaccines, No Needles Necessary
Special packaging lets the patches go without refrigeration for 10 weeks, far longer than vaccine solution.
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- Health Care
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