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Raise Taxes on Cigarettes, Other Tobacco Products: WHO
The World Health Organisation has urged governments around the world to increase taxes on cigarettes and other tobacco products to save lives.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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- regulations
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Why Pharmaceutical Firms in India Hardly Took the Village Road
It's easier to spot an auto showroom in a small town than to locate a pharmacy that sells anything beyond cough and cold, and birth-control pills.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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Panel Pushes for WHO Center for Health Emergencies
The World Health Organization should establish a single, unified WHO Center for Health Emergency Preparedness and Response — but not with Director-General Margaret Chan at the helm.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Getting Vaccines to People Who Need Them Is the Most Important Issue in Global Health
Fear of vaccines has allowed a host of diseases, including measles and whooping cough, to re-surface around the world in recent years.
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- Health Care
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A Condom That Tests for STDs Just Before Sex
Just last week, I was joking with some colleagues about whether we could sell a stick of gum with our condoms that, when chewed, would turn a certain color to indicate whether or not you had an STD. It turns out, we were not the only ones with such idea and they ignored the gum and went right to the condom itself.
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- Health Care
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Can Mobile Money Improve Your Health?
According to insights provided byMondato, the general rule of thumb is that when something appears too good to be true, it very likely is. Imagine that you were unfamiliar with the concept of insurance. A stranger at your door promises that if you pay 1000 shillings per month via your phone, if at some point you or someone in your family were to fall ill, the man’s company will pay up to 300 times that amount to cover the medical expenses. You would certainly be forgiven for being highly circumspect, at the very minimum.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Can a Bajaji Change a Teen Girl’s Life?
“Human-centered design has a role in solving every problem,” says Pam Scott, a serial design thinker whose career has wended from advertising to customer research to a board seat at IDEO.org to a current chapter that might be dubbed activist philanthropy. A born connector, Scott has spent nearly three decades working at the intersection of design and impact, and much of her power lies at getting the right people in the room and prompting them to ask — and answer — the right questions.
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- Health Care, Impact Assessment
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- philanthropy
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How Will Global Health Financing Change Post-MDGs?
Hundreds of billions of dollars have been spent since 2000 to tackle some of the world’s biggest health problems.
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- Health Care
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