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Diabetes Experts Tell G20 to Tax Sugar to Save Lives and Money
Diabetes experts called on world leaders on Thursday to use sugar taxes to fight obesity, arguing such a move would save lives and slash healthcare budgets.
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StartUp Health Goes Global With Launch of StartUp Health Finland
Global health innovation company StartUp Health is expanding globally with the launch of StartUp Health Finland in partnership with Finpro’s Team Finland Health growth program. The partnership will further both organizations’ missions, to grow and scale the next generation of businesses and strengthen Finland’s position as a digital health leader.
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Here’s What Some Hotels Do With Those Used Bars of Soap
Several years ago, Erin Zaikis was working in rural Thailand. She was surprised to see how many children in the village didn’t wash their hands with soap, much less know what soap was.
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Tackling the World’s Deadliest Childhood Disease
Few people in the developed world would ever guess that pneumonia kills more children under the age of 5 than any other disease. This serious respiratory infection takes the lives of nearly a million children each year, with the vast majority of these deaths occurring in developing countries.
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Health Care Dominates Borrowing in Global South
With policyMakers in emerging market economies stepping up the focus on financial inclusion, India and China have seen the strongest growth in account ownership between 2011 and 2014. If the findings of the World Bank-Gallup Global Findex Survey 2014, which asked over 1,50,000 respondents in 143 countries how and why they access financial services, were to be plotted on a map though, there is a very clear North-South divide in terms of where people spend their borrowed money.
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Affordable and Effective Vaccine Brings Africa Close to Elimination of Meningitis A
For a century, epidemics of meningococcal A meningitis, a bacterial infection of the lining of the brain and spinal cord, have swept across 26 countries in sub-Saharan Africa killing and disabling young people every year. The disease is highly feared on the continent; it can kill or cause severe brain damage within hours.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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World Bank Warns Climate Change Could Add 100 Million Poor By 2030
Without the right policies to keep the poor safe from extreme weather and rising seas, climate change could drive over 100 million more people into poverty by 2030, the World Bank said on Sunday.
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Nigeria Tops African Medical Tourism to India Chart
Nigeria is leading the chart of Africans seeking medical care in India, with about 42.4 per cent.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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