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Domex launches toilet academy
Domex, toilet cleaner brand of Hindustan Unilever Lever (HUL), has launched Domex Toilet Academy to mark the occasion of World Toilet Day which is celebrated globally on November 19 every year.
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- South Asia
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Mobile Health Targets Women: Yet many don’t have mobile phones
Mobile technology can provide maternal care to women across the globe – if more women get cell phones. The problem is phones can be too expensive, and when families can afford only one phone, it most often goes to the husband rather than the wife.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- public health
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India to checkmate cross-border polio threat
While India gears up to receive WHO certification, Pakistan is polio endemic with 59 cases reported this year, say delegates at a brainstorming Polio Plus orientation and planning workshop in Madurai.
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Africans once protected against malaria face new risk
While virus P. vivax causes some 65 percent of malaria in India and is endemic in many other parts of the world, much of Africa has remained immune.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Global healthcare system needs an overhaul
Absence of adequate regulatory controls, treatment guidelines, and patient awareness have led to a global surge in antibiotic resistance, says a team of experts; two of them are from India.
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Training Rural Liberians To Save Lives
Last Mile Health (known in Liberia as Tiyatien Health) aims to bring quality health care and jobs to remote regions of Liberia.
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- Education, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Apollo inks MoU with CSC to offer healthcare via telemedicine
Apollo Hospitals Group today signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Common Services Centers (CSC) Scheme of the government to deliver healthcare using telemedicine platform to patients in rural areas.
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Winners of $1 million award to support lifesaving innovations announced
A simple low-cost device that helps newborn babies to breathe and has the potential to transform the life chances for thousands of African babies has been awarded the highest fund in the first GSK and Save the Children $1million Healthcare Innovation Award.
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