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Delhi Dispatch: Rice, Wheat, and Water Serve Up Equal Helpings of Punjab’s Wealth and Risk
NARAINGARH, Haryana, India — The first rain in six months, and a stout and cold wind whipped at the black plastic covering stacks of grain Thursday morning at the Shivshakti Rice Mill, one of 13 mills surrounding this roadside village about 70 kilometers west of Chandigarh.
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- Agriculture, Environment, Health Care
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- South Asia
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- nutrition
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Ambassador Goosby to lead new Office of Global Health Diplomacy at the U.S. Department of State
Ambassador Eric Goosby, who serves as U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator. has been named to lead the new Office of Global Health Diplomacy at the U.S. Department of State.
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- Health Care
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Maternal health gets a boost in Malawi
On a gray Wednesday morning in the Malawian capital of Lilonge, a group of young people perform a skit for philanthropist Melinda Gates who has come to visit their recreational centre, a drafty room with wooden, board walls and a corrugated iron roof that don't quite meet.
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- Health Care
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Vaccine Rule Is Said to Hurt Health Efforts
A group of prominent doctors and public health experts warns in articles to be published Monday in the journal Pediatrics that banning thimerosal, a mercury compound used as a preservative in vaccines, would devastate public health efforts in developing countries.
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- Health Care
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A Cure for Baldness – But Not Malaria?: Attracting Businesses to Global Health R&D
The business of global health R&D isn’t working. Companies are seeking profitable treatments for relatively minor health problems, while largely ignoring major global diseases. But innovative new funding models are combining profit motives with an integrated social cause. Can they change the face of global health R&D?
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- Education, Health Care, Technology
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The Need to Scale: Social Enterprises and Community Health
“Community health workers: Now that is a profession that must be compensated.”
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- Health Care
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- scale
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Coke is Everywhere: Why Aren’t Medicines?
Why does Coca-Cola find its way to the remotest parts of the world, but essential medicines remain out of reach for many? With colleagues at INSEAD, we set out to decipher this question, hoping to find answers that could help make this debate more constructive. We met several people, interviewed both medicine and Coca-Cola supply chain experts, and talked to some social entrepreneurs.
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- Health Care
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