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New tele-medicine concept launched to tackle sickle cell
A novel concept of providing medical facility over phone to families of newborns suffering from Sickle Cell Disease has been launched by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) here in co-ordination with the Gujarat government.
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- Health Care
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A Whisky-Inspired Solution For Clean Drinking Water
With arsenic in their drinking water wells, Bangladeshi citizens suffer the "largest mass poisoning in history" every day. A new type of filter made from the leftovers from the distillation process could give them a convenient, safer water supply.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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Flying the Flag of Inspiration: University of São Paulo combines education, community development
“The Flag,” an extension of a project created in 1957, organizes students in educational, scientific and charitable activities every year in different communities around Brazil.
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- Education, Health Care
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Africa: USAID Announces Award to Prevent, Repair Obstetric Fistula
More health care workers in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia will be able to prevent, detect and treat the disabling condition obstetric fistula thanks to a new project sponsored by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).
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Global health 2035: A world converging within a generation
Prompted by deepening concerns over poverty and global inequality, the U.N. General Assembly in 2000 adopted the Millennium Development Declaration, putting forward a series of goals which were meant to be achieved by 2015. Core issues included improving global health, including reducing child mortality, improving maternal health and combating HIV/AIDS and other diseases.
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- Education, Health Care
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The Power of Partnership: Extraordinary Progress, Lessons Learned & Great Hope for Future in South Africa
South Africa, with support from the United States through the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), provides more than 2.4 million of its people with antiretroviral treatment (ART) - saving countless lives, keeping families together, and increasing South Africa's overall economic productivity.
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Florence Ajimobi’s ABC: Towards Oyo’s quality, effective basic health care
The cost of basic health care more often than not goes beyond the financial strength of many people and those that can afford such services more often than not find themselves at a loss on how and where to get qualitative attention. In Oyo State, however, this is a thing of the past with the intervention of the Access to Basic medical Care (ABC) foundation, an initiative of the wife of the executive governor of the state, Mrs Florence Ajimobi.
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- Health Care
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- public health
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The Indian government launched a comprehensive programme to improve the health of adolescents
Adolescents comprise over 21 percent of the over 121 core population, in the country with a focus on community-based interventions.
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- Education, Health Care
- Region
- South Asia
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