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Delegates Debate Climate Change Influence On Health
Through providing leadership, advocacy, policy and research, the Alliance aims to ensure health impacts are integrated into global, national and local responses to climate change and to encourage the health sector's mitigation and adaptation efforts.
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- Education, Environment, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- public health
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World Bank Identifies Threats to Global Health – Says Policy Interventions Can Turn the Tide
A new World Bank report warns that risky behaviors -smoking, using illicit drugs, alcohol abuse, unhealthy diets, and unsafe sex-- are increasing globally and pose a growing threat to the health of individuals, particularly in developing countries.
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- Education, Health Care
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- public health
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Agency ready to provide telemedicine in Nigeria
The Nigerian Communication Satellite Limited (NIGCOMSAT) is ready to provide telemedicine services to improve the health status of Nigerians.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Is Africa Widening or Rising?
Africa may or may not be “rising” but it's certainly widening. Obesity is on the rise, and is rising fast.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- nutrition
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Lifebuoy, UNICEF partner to fight colera
Lifebuoy commences another journey towards saving lives by partnering UNICEF with donation of Lifebuoy soap towards basic hygiene practice aimed at preventing the spread of cholera in Nigeria.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Conference on adapting Indian innovations in health
At a time when the western world is going through a crisis of sorts in the health care sector, a conference at the University of Oxford will explore adapting Indian innovations for better health services across the world.
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- Environment, Health Care
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- South Asia
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Bill Gates Can’t Build a Toilet
IN addition to eradicating polio in India and starting the personal computer revolution, the Seattle Superman of our age has managed to make going to the bathroom a cause célèbre. Five years ago, if I’d told people I worked on toilets, they would have surely assumed I was a plumber. Now, they exclaim: “Oh! Isn’t Bill Gates into that?”
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- Health Care
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EU seeks ways to make vaccines resistant to hot weather
Half of the vaccines sent to developing countries are lost as they deteriorate during transportation, but a new EU-sponsored project may solve the problem.
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- Health Care