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United Nations study finds digital payments to Ebola response workers saved lives and $10 million
By using digital payments to pay Ebola response workers, Sierra Leone massively cut payment times, avoiding large-scale strikes and ensuring a stable workforce to defeat Ebola.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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India Eyes Oil-for-Drugs Deal With Venezuela to Recoup Pharma Cash
Indian officials say they have proposed an oil-for-drugs barter plan with cash-strapped Venezuela to recoup millions of dollars in payments owed to some of India's largest pharmaceutical companies.
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- Latin America
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Colombia Battles World’s Biggest Drugmaker Over Cancer Drug
Colombia's government is giving pharmaceutical giant Novartis a few weeks to lower prices on a popular cancer drug or see its monopoly on production of the medicine broken and competition thrown open to generic rivals.
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- Latin America
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PATH and Laerdal Global Health to Accelerate Global Access to an Innovative Feeding Cup for Preterm and High-Risk Newborns
PATH and Laerdal Global Health announced today at the Women Deliver Global Conference that they will collaborate to bring a feeding cup to market based on a reference design co-developed by PATH, the University of Washington School of Dentistry, and the Craniofacial Center at Seattle Children’s Hospital, thereby ensuring an innovative feeding option for the 7.6 million preterm infants in Africa and Asia who have difficulty breastfeeding.
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Amid India’s Drought Crisis, Suicides Increase Among Farmers Deep In Debt
In India, two consecutive years of weak monsoons have left some 330 million people – a quarter of the country – in the grip of drought. Deepening the crisis, farmers are taking their lives.
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- South Asia
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Ford Turning Captured CO2 Into Car Parts
Ford Motor Company claims to be the first automaker to formulate and test new foam and plastic components using captured carbon dioxide (CO2) as feedstock. Within five years, the company expects to be using the new biomaterials in its vehicles.
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Water-Cleaning Book Wins International Design Prize
The Drinkable Book was presented the Design Intelligence Gold Award at a ceremony in Hangzhou, China on Sunday, May 8. The inventor of the book’s water purifying pages, Dr. Theresa Dankovich, accepted the 1M RMB ($153,000) award on behalf of her company, Pittsburgh-based Folia Water, Inc.
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An Indian Farmer’s Son Is Now Worth More Than $300 Million After His Health Care Firm’s IPO
By his own admission, Arokiaswamy Velumani was born at the bottom of the pyramid. The son of a landless farmer from the nondescript village of Appanickenpatti Padur in Tamil Nadu, Velumani saw through school and college on subsidised funding from the government.
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- Health Care
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