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Price capping takes sheen off condom sales following government decision
It's the condom makers turn to seek protection as sales of the male contraceptive have plunged drastically following a government decision to dub it an essential drug and cap its price more than a year ago.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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Nine Humanitarian Businesses Win Bloomberg-Funded Genesis Challenge
Genesis Generation Challenge Recipients of this year are: Build Israel and Palestine (BIP); Building Up (Canada); eNable 3d Printed Prosthetics; LAVAN (Israel); Prize4Life (Israel); Sanergy (Kenya); Sesame (Israel); Spark (Burundi); and Vera Solutions (United States, India).
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We’re Learning How to Sell Toilets in West Africa
With the excitement and buzz of World Water Day behind us I’m left both inspired and concerned. I’m inspired because there is a growing understanding by WASH professionals that it will take market development and systemic change to truly solve the problem. These methods look overall at what is working and not working in terms of WASH services for populations at risk across value chains and within the market system, and then, based on that analysis, develop targeted interventions with pro-poor innovations to make markets work. What is also exciting is the impact that adopting and implementing these approaches might have on the development sector in general.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Scientists Race to Beat Mosquito Resistance in Fight Against Malaria
Mosquitoes are rapidly developing resistance to insecticides used in bed nets that millions of people rely on to protect them from malaria, experts say.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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How Has Rwanda Saved the Lives of 590,000 Children?
In 2000, one of the UN's Millennium Development Goals committed the world to reduce child mortality rates by September 2015. At the time, out of every 1,000 live births, an average of 90 children died before the age of five.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Villagers Armed With Smartphones Can Help Stem the Rising Rate of Suicides in India
India has among the highest rates of depression in the world. If Deepika Padukone, a leading Bollywood actress, hadn’t talked publicly about her battle with depression, you probably wouldn’t know.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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Bill Gates: You Can Help the World Save 34 Million Lives
If I told you that we could save the lives of, say, 10 million people, mainly by doing things we already know how to do, that would get your attention, right?
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Kenya and Rwanda Are Competing to Become East Africa’s Medical Tourism Hub, Says Frost & Sullivan
A diverse set of forces, including favourable economic factors, a supportive regulatory environment, and a high disease burden will make Kenya and Rwanda among the most attractive countries in East Africa. The consolidation of the rising middle class and heightened healthcare awareness will drive up per capita healthcare expenditure and provide lucrative opportunities within these markets.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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