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Making a clean sweep of a ‘dirty’ business in India
A new kind of "dirty" business is becoming the latest frontier in the bottom-of-the-pyramid market in India, with a number of start-ups seeing a huge opportunity in building and maintaining toilets as more than 600 million Indians still defecate in the open, according to the World Health Organization.
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- South Asia
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Coming, ready or not
The threat of a global pandemic is rising again.
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- Asia Pacific
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A Lose-Lose Situation: How medical insourcing impacts developing and developed countries (Part 1)
Both rich and poor countries are dealing with a shortage of medical professionals. Yet many developed countries are responding by recruiting health professionals from countries with even graver shortages. In her book, Insourced: How Importing Jobs Impacts the Healthcare Crisis Here and Abroad, Dr. Kate Tulenko argues that medical insourcing is a lose-lose situation for all countries involved.
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- Education, Health Care
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Universal healthcare: 14 steps in the right direction
From innovative financing to national income surveys, our expert panel offer some important lessons in developing affordable and sustainable universal health coverage
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Stopping Micronutrient Deficiencies: GAIN’s Rebecca Spohrer on the potential of food fortification
Micronutrient deficiency is one of the most common public health problems in developing countries, accounting for about 10 percent of the global health burden. But because many people lack access to naturally occurring nutrients, food fortification can offer numerous benefits. In this Q&A with Ashoka Changemakers, Rebecca Spohrer of the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition discusses this approach.
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Debunking the Myths behind Food Fortification: A multi-strategy approach to creating a “Nutrients for All” world
Over 2 billion people today suffer from some form of micronutrient malnutrition – a leading cause of several life-threatening human development consequences. While there are multiple interventions that help prevent micronutrient deficiencies, food fortification is universally recognized as one of the most cost-effective. This post explores some of the misconceptions around the practice.
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- nutrition, public health
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Shared value: USAID’s new global health focus
Dr. Pablos-Mendez joined the USAID leadership team with a vision to shape the Bureau for Global Health’s programmatic efforts to accomplish scalable, sustainable and measurable impact on the lives of people in developing countries as envisioned in President Obama’s Global Health Initiative.
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Big Problems – Big Solutions: One Million CHWs and Living Goods at the Global Health & Innovation Conference
From last weekend’s Global Health & Innovation Conference: Sonia Ehrlich Sachs discusses the One Million Community Health Workers (CHW) Campaign, which aims to rapidly initiate and scale up rural CHW programs in sub-Saharan Africa. Also featured: a video of Mike Pezone discussing the Living Goods model - dubbed "the Avon Ladies of Africa."
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