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US consumer giant seeks to smash India menstruation taboos
The latest commercial for Procter & Gamble's top-selling brand of sanitary pads in India ticks all the usual boxes - a young woman jogs happily in pristine white trousers, before effortlessly winning a tennis tournament.
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- South Asia
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- public health
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Plagues on the Poor: What Ebola Can Learn From Malaria
If the U.S. spent more money on disease prevention and clinics—and less on vaccines and drugs—everyone in the world would stand to benefit
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- Health Care
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The “Celebrity Couples” of Global Health and Development
Sanitation and nutrition, contraception and newborn survival, girls' education and child survival, infrastructure and maternal survival, women's incomes and violence -- these are just some of the most powerful relationships in global health and development today. Odd couples, you might think.
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- Health Care
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OPINION: ObamaCare’s Anti-Innovation Effect
Of the many unintended consequences of the Affordable Care Act, perhaps the least noticed is its threat to innovation.
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- Education, Health Care
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Plant-based vaccines challenge big pharma
The recent revelation that the Ebola drug ZMapp is produced in the leaves of tobacco plants captured global attention.
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GlaxoSmithKline, NewLink working to bring Ebola vaccines online: WHO
Both GlaxoSmithKline and NewLink Genetics are working to boost their capacity to make Ebola vaccines, with a goal of a "very significant increase in scale during the first half of 2015," the World Health Organization said on Wednesday.
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Handling the next pandemic
Can the global health system stop Ebola? The answer has more to do with Samuel Kaziraho than you might expect.
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Developing countries should enroll medical and nursing students from rural areas
Nearly one third of medical and nursing students in developing countries may have no intention of working in their own countries after graduation, while less than one fifth of them intend to work in rural areas where they are needed most, according to a new study.
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- Education, Health Care
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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