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Africa: Air Pollution Now Linked to 1 in 8 Deaths Worldwide, UN Health Agency Reports
Air pollution - both indoor and outdoor - killed some 7 million people across the globe in 2012, making it the world's largest single environmental health risk, according to new figures released today by the UN World Health Organization (WHO).
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- Education, Health Care
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One man’s quest to train India’s many quack doctors
Squatting on their haunches among fruit trees and orange marigolds, barefoot villagers wait in the morning chill to see Dr. Pijus Sarkar, the only full-time physician in this remote part of West Bengal. They come because their local health provider — an alternative healer or one with no training at all — failed to help them, or even made them worse.
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- Education, Health Care
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The Benefits of Public-Private Partnerships in Global Health
If countries are healthier and more prosperous, then we all benefit. After all, global health means economic health. This is one reason why many governments in wealthier countries have helped fund disease prevention in developing countries, far outside their borders. It’s the right thing to do, but it’s also smart policy.
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How Millennium Challenge Corp. Partnership Will Help PEPFAR ‘go local’ in South Africa
The U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief and the U.S. Agency for International Development work together to help strengthen public health systems in South Africa by funding ARV distribution and equipment.
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- Environment, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- governance, supply chains
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In the Americas, One in Five People with Tuberculosis is Unaware of the Disease
In 2012, almost 220,000 cases were reported, and an estimated 19,000 people died from tuberculosis in the Americas.
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- Education, Health Care
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Ebola Outbreak in Guinea May Spread to Liberia
An outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus is believed to have killed at least 59 people in Guinea and may already have spread to neighboring Liberia, health officials said Monday.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Toilet Tech Fair Tackles Global Sanitation Woes
Who would have expected a toilet to one day filter water, charge a cellphone or create charcoal to combat climate change? These are lofty ambitions beyond what most of the world's 2.5 billion people with no access to modern sanitation would expect. Yet, scientists and toilet innovators around the world say these are exactly the sort of goals needed to improve global public health amid challenges such as poverty, water scarcity and urban growth.
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USAID’s partnership with GE in Kenya will help health facilities buy high-tech equipment
Health care providers in Kenya will soon have a much better shot at getting a bank loan to buy high-tech medical equipment — as long as the machines are made by General Electric.
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- Health Care
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