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Biocon Recognized for Outstanding Contribution to Public Health by WHO – India
Biocon’s integrated healthcare initiatives is constantly engaged in improving the quality of life of several thousand communities in India.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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- public health
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South Africa: Tuberculosis – Taxis’ Deadly Passenger
Millions of South Africans rely on minibus taxis daily, but South Africa's most widely used mode of public transport could also be ferrying a deadly passenger.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Blue Diversion Toilet aims to improve sanitation with built-in filtration system
Austrian design firm EOOS and water research institute Eawag hope to improve sanitation levels in areas of extreme poverty with a mobile toilet that contains its own water filtration system.
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- Health Care
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- public health
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These Printable Tests for HIV And E.Coli Will Bring Diagnosis Anywhere in the World
Cheap, simple diagnostic kits have the potential to revolutionize health care in the developing world. If we can put non-technical tests in the hands of normal people, we can test for diseases more efficiently without building out formal clinic networks. That should help get treatments to people in a more timely way.
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- Health Care
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African Hub Set Up to Boost Research Autonomy
African scientists look set to gain greater control over research in their own countries, if an ambitious plan for a regional hub to award grants and develop research capacity bears fruit.
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- Education, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- impact investing, research
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The Social Media Network Saving Lives, No Internet Needed
At one of India’s most prestigious tech universities, IIT Delhi, assistant professor in technology for development Aaditeshwar Seth has been spearheading a social media network for the country’s rural and largely poor population—no Internet required.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- South Asia
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Rajasthan’s Karma Healthcare Bags Funding to Bring Telemedicine to Villages
Indian rural healthcare startup Karma Healthcare has raised an undisclosed amount in pre-series A round from impact fund Ankur Capital and an unnamed international VC firm.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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Oral Antibiotics Are Found to Save More Infant Lives
While vaccines, mosquito nets and other health measures have saved millions of children younger than 5 in the last decade, death rates from pneumonia, sepsis and meningitis among babies in the first weeks of life have remained stubbornly high.
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- Health Care
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- vaccines
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