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Blood Money: The Race to Crack India’s Lucrative Menstruation Market
Every evening after work, 27-year-old Paravi* prepares for her upcoming wedding. She reads bridal magazines and hones her cooking, while her aunties regale her with funny tales of married life.
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Medecins Sans Frontieres Files to Block Pfizer Patent on Pneumonia Vaccine in India
The charity Medicins Sans Frontieres has formally opposed U.S. firm Pfizer Inc's application for an Indian patent on a highly effective pneumonia vaccine, saying it could deprive many developing nations of cheaper copies of the drug.
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How Should We Measure Access to Health Care?
Nearly 300 civil society organizations working in global health are lobbying United Nations member states to undo proposed changes in the measurement of universal health coverage as part of the newly approved Sustainable Development Goals.
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Zika-Carrying Mosquitoes Developing Resistance to Top Insecticide
The advice is right there, on the website of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. To avoid contracting Zika, treat your clothing with an insecticide known as permethrin or buy apparel that is already treated with it.
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Viewpoint: Health-Tech Startups Can Make India a True Innovation Hub
Whenever we talk about disruption in any industry, the existing gaps or snags within the space are the driving force behind it, especially when the gaps have reached a point of deficit. It is only at this stage of extreme deprivation that we see truly innovative solutions emerge. And there are plenty of examples to corroborate this fact. Be it the telecom revolution in India that took place in the late 90’s, led by the then newly formed private telecom sector in the country, or the more recent and still growing “Uber” led disruption for the public transport system in India or even the world. Most industries that have seen transformation at any point have benefited from the lacuna that existed before that particular industry was set on a path of resurrection.
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Low-Cost TB Test for HIV Patients Can Save Thousands of Lives
A low-cost urine test that detects tuberculosis in people living with HIV can save thousands of lives, many of them in sub-Saharan Africa, a Cape Town University researcher said on Wednesday.
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Venezuela’s Birth Control Crisis
Toilet paper. Diapers. Vitamins. Milk. These are a few of the items Venezuelans can no longer expect to find at their local grocery stores and markets. The scarcity can be traced back to 2014, when oil prices first started to plummet and the economy found itself in dire straits. Venezuela's oil revenue makes up 95 percentof its export earnings, and the slump in oil prices has buried the country in $10 billion of debt.
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Mosquito Eating Fish Used to Fight Zika Virus in Latin America
With the Zika virus spreading toward the United States, threatening pregnant mothers and the 2016 Olympics, aid workers have placed hope in a familiar fish.
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