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One billion raise a stink
Sanitation is not merely a development wish list, but a fundamental requirement that directly affects people's survival.
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Child marriage perpetuates cycle of poverty for young people
In the developing world, one in 10 girls is married before the age of 18. One in seven is married before 15. Tino Borantu of Ethiopia was married at age 9.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Africa: Development Targets Ride on Vitamins
One hundred and ninety million - that's more than the populations of Germany, France and Poland combined. It is also the number of children affected by vitamin A deficiency around the world.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Unilever’s Hygiene Brand Domestos To Break Taboo Of The Loo
LONDON And ROTTERDAM, Nov. 19 /CSRwire/ - Unilever, through its leading hygiene brand Domestos, today – World Toilet Day - announced new initiatives to raise awareness for the global sanitation crisis. ‘Toilets for Health’, a white paper by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and Domestos, gives new insights in the sanitation crisis.
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- Environment, Health Care
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- Europe & Eurasia
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Italians, Israelis aim to fight hunger in Senegal
Trilateral agricultural development project seeks to eradicate hunger by providing farmers with technological know-how.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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eBay founder’s investment firm makes a grant to global health consortium
Omidyar Network, the philanthropic investment firm of eBay founder, Pierre Omidyar, is making a $1.5 million grant to a global consortium supporting innovation in healthcare and medical technology. The grant has been made to Massachusetts General Hospital's Center for Global Health to support the Consortium for Affordable Medical Technologies (CAMTech).
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- Health Care, Investing
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Duke Receives Award for Social Entrepreneurship Accelerator
Durham, NC - Duke University will be able to draw on its expertise in social entrepreneurship and innovation to tackle global health challenges, thanks to a $10 million award from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) that was announced Thursday in Washington.
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LifeSpring Hospitals: Providing Affordable, Quality Maternity Care to India’s Middle Class
Last year, when 24-year-old Madhuri Satyanarayan, a resident of Neredmet village in Andhra Pradesh, found out that she was pregnant, her joy was tempered with anxiety about the medical costs. At the nearby private hospital where she went for her check–ups, the cost of delivery was estimated to be around US$500.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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