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India’s government hails interventions for reducing maternal deaths
According to the Indian minister of health and family welfare, "various interventions" spearheaded by the country's government have contributed to a successful reduction in maternal mortality over the last 12 years.
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- Health Care
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- public health
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ADB, Gates Foundation Partner for Sanitation Innovation in Asia
As the world’s most populous region continues to grow, innovative solutions to sanitation are more needed than even before in Asia, where many governments still don’t see this Millennium Development Goal as a priority.
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- Asia Pacific
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Matt Damon Tries to Get Clean Water and Toilets for India’s Poor
Matt Damon finds it a challenge to get people to care about water. It’s why he was in India from Aug. 23 to 26 on a four-day tour. Not to promote his latest film Elysium, a sci-fi dystopia with a socialist underpinning, but to help the rural and urban poor in India get access to clean water and sanitation by investing in tube wells, hand pumps and toilets with proper drainage facilities.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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- South Asia
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- microfinance
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Social enterprise Findacure aims to unlock new insights into rare diseases
Through his social enterprise Nick Sireau and his team aim to change the field of drug development.
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Can NGOs and pharmaceutical firms partner to solve global health issues?
A few weeks ago, in a remote Rwandan village, I met a nurse who had set up her own clinic to serve the local residents. From a single, brightly decorated room, she was prescribing medicines and administering basic care that patients might otherwise have to walk 15 miles or more to reach.
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Telemedicine Improves Patient Outcomes: Study
Telemedicine technology is a hot commodity these days -- but is it actually effective in improving patient outcomes? Researchers at UC Davis Children's Hospital say it is.Researchers found telemedicine consults significantly improved outcomes for patients treated in rural pediatric emergency departments that lack pediatric specialists.
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Uganda: Doctors Get Offers They Can’t Resist
Every two days, at least one doctor heads to the airport of a poor African country and flies off to work in Europe or America. Up to 2000 doctors have left in the last 10 years; leaving Africa with the highest disease burden in the world and the lowest number of health workers.
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How Clean Toilets Can Help Improve the Health of Undernourished Children in India
Thirty-eight percent of India’s children are stunted, according to a recent report by The Lancet on malnutrition. That means that nearly 62 million children in India will not reach their full physical or mental potential.Reducing that number – and we must if India is to reach its fullest potential – is a big effort, one that’s been under way for some time.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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