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India gang rape case highlights lack of toilets
LUCKNOW, India (AP) — The two teenage girls had walked out together at night, as they did every night, into the wild bamboo fields 10 or 15 minutes from their mud-and-straw huts to relieve themselves. Like millions of families across India, they had no toilet at home.
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- South Asia
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Telemedicine in India might be just what the doctor ordered
Between surgeries and hospital rounds one recent day, Dr. Rajiv Parakh made a dash into his Gurgaon office for an appointment he couldn’t miss: a consultation with a patient who lives hundreds of kilometres away.
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- Health Care, Technology
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In Market Dynamics, Creativity Matters: Global organizations using a variety of interventions to leverage their work
R4D’s market dynamics team works to align the needs of manufacturers, countries, financiers and regulators. The goal is to ensure that the most marginalized populations have reliable, high-quality, affordable access to products such as HIV/AIDS treatment, neglected diseases drugs and sanitation technologies.
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- Environment, Health Care
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‘Millions denied end-of-life drugs’
Lack of access to pain relief for dying patients is a "public health emergency", say experts.
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- Health Care
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- public health
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Fighting Deadly Disease, With Grains of Rice
TOKYO — Yoshikazu Yuki and other researchers at the University of Tokyo are bioengineering rice in a bid to turn it into an easy and low-cost storage and delivery medium for drugs to combat common infectious and contagious illnesses.
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OPINION: Exploring the Millennium Villages Project: has it improved lives in Africa?
Two leading global philanthropists, Jeffrey D. Sachs and Bill Gates, debate the impact and progress of the Millennium Villages Project, which aims to improve lives in 20 African countries over the course of 10 years.
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- Health Care, Impact Assessment
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The Science of Designing Food for the World’s Poor
Enlisting cartoon characters and computer software in the fight against malnutrition
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- Health Care
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Promising malaria vaccine looks to employ robots to mass produce its product
Imagine that, in the face of substantial technical odds, you developed a vaccine for malaria that, in early trials, was 100 percent effective. But then, due to political wrangling over the budget, you couldn’t get the funding you needed to produce enough of the vaccine to market it. What would you do?
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