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Sustainable innovation, minus the sticker shock?
What do solar-powered hearing aids, a subscription service for baby clothes and mobile technology for farmers in East Africa all have in common? For one, they are each finalists in this year’s Sustainia100, an annual study of the top 100 sustainability innovations, published Thursday.
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- Environment, Health Care
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MSF urges India not to ‘cave to pressure’ on affordable drugs
Charity Medecins Sans Frontieres appealed to India on Thursday not to give in to pressure from Europe, the United States and Japan to make it easier for big firms to get patents in the country, potentially blocking the production of cheap generics.
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- South Asia
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Reformed drug shops can widen access to healthcare
Retail drug shops are popular with rural people but many sellers lack qualifications. Introducing training, accreditation and oversight can enhance their services and, once established, such a system funds itself, ending the need for donor support.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Modern housing can cut malaria infections nearly in half
Keeping your children home safe at night is a good idea. But what if home is a deadly place? For many people living in developing countries, traditional housing does little to keep out malaria-spreading mosquitoes.
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Habitat Destruction Is Exposing Us to a Dangerous New Form of Malaria
If you’re not a doctor, you probably think of malaria as a single disease. That’s not quite right. There are several parasites that cause what we call malaria—likePlasmodium falciparum, Plasmodium vivax, Plasmodium ovale, and Plasmodium malariae—and each brings a slightly different form of the disease. Now, in a northeastern corner of Malaysia, doctors are concerned about the rapid expansion of yet another malaria-inducing parasite named Plasmodium knowlesi. Incidence of the parasite increased tenfold between 2004 and 2011, and many public-health researchers are worried things are going to get worse.
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- Health Care
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- Asia Pacific
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- public health
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Press Release: New Formulation of HIV Treatment To Save More Children’s Lives – UNICEF and UNAIDS
Children affected by HIV and AIDS will benefit from the decision by the United States Food and Drug Administration to grant approval to a new antiretroviral formulation that can be mixed with food to make it easier for children living with HIV to take the life-saving medicines, UNAIDS and UNICEF said today.
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Tony Blair: Access to Electricity Is the Single Most Vital Precondition for Success in African Nations
A decade on from the Gleneagles Summit, Africa is undergoing a remarkable transformation. Standards of living are increasing, the middle class is set to double in the next ten years and a continent that was then a scar on the conscience of the world is now the most exciting. Africa’s challenges are still better known than its prospects; but with a digital revolution in full-swing and data revolution underway, African nations have a chance to leapfrog stages of development.
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- Energy, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Effort to Chart Global Deaths Draws Backlash
An interview with Jeremy N. Smith, author of a new book, "Epic Measures: One Doctor. Seven Billion Patients," about Christopher Murray’s audacious project to determine what is killing and plaguing people in every corner of the globe.
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- Education, Health Care
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