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Why India ignores a $16 billion smoking-led health crisis
The World Health Organisation's Report on the Global Tobacco Epidemic 2015 is largely ignored in India. Its single-line message: Raising tobacco taxes can help curb smoking.
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- South Asia
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Women rule Pakistan’s med schools, but few practice. Men want M.D. ‘trophy wives.’
The Pakistan Medical and Dental Council says more than 70 percent of medical students are women. But most of these bright female undergraduate doctors do not actually go on to practice; only 23 percent of registered doctors are female.
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- South Asia
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In Peru, progress against TB
A branch of Partners In Health has helped reduce deaths through careful protocols.
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Developing youth entrepreneurship in Morocco
A short stroll through Casablanca's Derb Ghallef "informal market", with its endless stalls of goods and services, offers a panorama of the entrepreneurial spirit and capacity of Morocco's youth: entrepreneurship, innovation and the Silicon Valley.These are all seductive terms that have been touted by everyone from private sector leaders to politicians as panaceas to a wide range of problems plaguing the world.However, in the context of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) where there is a pronounced youth bulge , these words can still hold meaning and potential where four out of five unemployed individuals are inactive and, often, disaffected youth between the ages of 15 and 34.
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Education for poverty alleviation: Achyuta Samanta
Achyuta Samanta's pioneering work in social entrepreneurship has earned him global recognition and brought him awards galore. KISS (KIIT Institute of Social Sciences), a school for 25,000 tribal children, which Samanta founded in 1992, is his greatest passion for the moment. While KISS is acclaimed widely, its finance model still remains an enigma to many. In an interview with Dillip Satapathy and Jayajit Dash, Samanta shares his thoughts on future of KISS and KIIT and the status of education as a whole.
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IIT-Hyderabad model to make ECGs available in remote areas
A team of four IIT-H professors have proposed a two-tier-cardiology framework in which electrocardiogram (ECG) records can be transmitted even when available resources such as power and bandwidth are limited.
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India fixes health goals for next 15 years
India has set itself a challenging target to reduce the maternal mortality rate to 70 per 1,000 live births, and for neonatal and under-five to 12 and 25 per 1,000 births, respectively, under the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to be achieved over the next 15 years.
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OPINION: Why advocating universal free primary health care is irresponsible at best
In a recent Lancet article, Dean Jamison reports on a set of committee conclusions that calls on every country, no matter what its circumstances, to commit to universal health care. I can no longer say that no “real” economist would say such a thing.
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