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Food Politics Hits India’s Most Malnourished Children
Clutching battered metal plates, the children waited patiently in a remote central Indian village for the two small flat pieces of bread and scoop of boiled potato curry that would be their only full meal that day.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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- nutrition
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Bringing Innovation to the Front Line of Global Health
Lelio Marmora, UNITAID executive director, discusses how to accelerate introduction of effective new health solutions.
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- Health Care
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Can Tobacco Excise Taxes Be a Boon for NCD Financing?
Governments need to put more effort in implementing one of the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control’s proven measures to reduce demand and deaths from tobacco use — levying high taxes on tobacco products.
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- Health Care
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- regulations
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Indian Medtech Startup Gets $10M Injection to Be Facebook for Healthcare
Indian healthcare communication platform Lybrate announced today it has secured US$10.2 million in series A funding from Tiger Global Management, Indian business tycoon Ratan Tata, and existing investor Nexus Venture Partners. The company previously received US$1.2 million in seed funding.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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- impact investing
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Cautious Optimism: Calculating the Actual Value of a Global Health Game Changer
We all know that vaccines have had huge success in protecting children from deadly diseases. However, the health benefits of vaccines have not been shared equally across the globe.
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- Health Care
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- vaccines
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Better Housing Architecture Could Halve Malaria Cases
Improved housing with features such as closed eaves could lower malaria cases by half in some settings, according to a study.
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Why Transporting Vegetables Is Not So Different From Delivering Vaccines
Every day in low-income countries throughout the world, tons of fresh fruit and vegetables fail to reach their destinations or become damaged and inedible along the way. By contrast, highly processed foods – likely to include large amounts of fat, sugar or preservatives – reach these same destinations, ready to be eaten by people in need of food. This simultaneous availability of less healthy processed food and shortage of nutritious food is a key factor in the growing combination of undernutrition and obesity throughout many low-income countries.
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- Health Care
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- supply chains, vaccines
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China Developers Chase Next Goldmine With Health-Care Blitz
Chinese real estate developers have begun chasing what they see as the country’s next big business opportunity -- the health-care market.
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- Health Care
- Region
- South Asia
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