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Fat profits: how the food industry cashed in on obesity
Ever since definitions of healthy bodyweight changed in the 1990s, the world has feared an obesity epidemic. But the food giants accused of making us fat are also profiting from the slimming industry
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- Health Care
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The Top 3 Public Health Trends Across Africa
In advance of the many health-related discussions to take place in September at the Clinton Global Initiative, the Social Good Summit, UN week and other such events, the Skoll World Forum asked some of the world’s leading voices in global health to paint a comprehensive picture of key trends, challenges and opportunities to realizing healthcare access and treatment around the world.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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How to Foster Low-Tech Health Innovation
A Seattle non-profit's model for uniting public health and the private sector, and what they've come up with
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- Health Care
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Taking the long view on Big Pharma in China
Big pharma’s Chinese dreams are bruised, but not broken.
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- Health Care
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- Asia Pacific
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- governance
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An Extinction to Celebrate
The other month, in South Sudan, I sat with a nine-year-old named Nakal twice a day. She had come from the Mogos containment-care center, in Eastern Equatoria, where, for two weeks, she was tortured by a guinea worm emerging from her right knee.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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A nation of the hungry and obese
South Africa is heading for a health disaster: more than half the population is living in hunger or at risk of it, while a large percentage of the rest are obese or at risk of developing poor lifestyle-related illnesses.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- nutrition
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A ‘Shared Value’ Success Story: How Mercy Corps is helping Tiendas de la Salud micropharmacies scale from 50 to 500 stores in rural Guatemala
In social enterprise, "shared value" often means bringing unconventional combinations of groups together to tackle the challenges of poverty. In this post, Mercy Corps CEO Neal Keny-Guyer describes how this approach helped a Guatemalan micropharmacy franchise scale up.
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- Health Care
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Harvard Awarded $8.1 Million for Transparency Research on Health and Other Social Sector Outcomes
Harvard University researchers have been awarded $8.1 million for a five-year project to research the impact of community transparency and accountability initiatives on health and other social sector outcomes, beginning in Indonesia and Tanzania.
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- Education, Health Care
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- academia, public health, research
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