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Simple, Cheap Health Remedies Cut Child Mortality In Ethiopia
Poor countries are starting to realize something that richer ones sometimes forget: Basic, inexpensive measures can have dramatic impacts on the health of a country. And they can save thousands of lives. Take, for instance, the situation in Ethiopia.
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- Education, Health Care
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A third of adults across world now overweight or obese
More than a third of all adults across the world are overweight or obese, a report from a British think-tank has revealed, leading to calls for governments to do more to tackle the growing crisis.
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- Education, Health Care
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- nutrition
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Most effective way to reduce smoking? Increase price of cigarettes, study says
That is the conclusion of a new study that calls for a tripling of tobacco taxes and a doubling of the price of a pack of cigarettes in much of the world.
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- Education, Health Care
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Watch The Gates Foundation’s New CEO In Action
Bill and Melinda Gates just announced that they have recruited Susan Desmond-Hellmann, until now the chancellor of the University of California, San Francisco, as the chief executive of their foundation.
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- Education, Health Care
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- public health, vaccines
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Small lifestyle changes ‘lower type 2 diabetes risk’
Modest lifestyle changes in diet and activity by South Asian families improve their chance of losing weight to lower their risk of type 2 diabetes, according to a study.
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- Education, Health Care
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- public health, research
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Greg Dees, social entrepreneurship pioneer, dies at 63
J. Gregory Dees, a Duke University professor recognized internationally for developing social entrepreneurship as an academic field, died at Duke Hospital Friday afternoon. He was 63.
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- Education
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Thousands of health workers in Senegal receive no pay. Is that fair?
In many parts of Latin America, Asia and Africa, there aren't enough doctors and nurses to care for everyone who is sick. So charities and governments have enlisted thousands of volunteers to serve as community health workers.
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Rwanda targeting 80% financial inclusion by 2017
In order to achieve the country’s economic transformation and poverty reduction, Rwanda has set its goal on increasing financial inclusion to 80 percent by 2017, through deepening and broadening the financial literacy of Rwandans.
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- Education
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