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Sustainable Innovation, Minus the Sticker Shock?
What do solar-powered hearing aids, a subscription service for baby clothes and mobile technology for farmers in East Africa all have in common?
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- Energy, Environment
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- solar
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Press Release: New Formulation of HIV Treatment To Save More Children’s Lives – UNICEF and UNAIDS
Children affected by HIV and AIDS will benefit from the decision by the United States Food and Drug Administration to grant approval to a new antiretroviral formulation that can be mixed with food to make it easier for children living with HIV to take the life-saving medicines, UNAIDS and UNICEF said today.
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- Health Care
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Can This Scientist Unite Genetic Engineers and Organic Farmers?
Eighteen scientists are sitting in a lab, talking about new ways to feed the planet. These are some of the world’s foremost experts on rice. Most of them are from China. Nearly all of them are men.
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- Agriculture, Environment
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Tony Blair: Access to Electricity Is the Single Most Vital Precondition for Success in African Nations
A decade on from the Gleneagles Summit, Africa is undergoing a remarkable transformation. Standards of living are increasing, the middle class is set to double in the next ten years and a continent that was then a scar on the conscience of the world is now the most exciting. Africa’s challenges are still better known than its prospects; but with a digital revolution in full-swing and data revolution underway, African nations have a chance to leapfrog stages of development.
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- Energy, Health Care
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Effort to Chart Global Deaths Draws Backlash
An interview with Jeremy N. Smith, author of a new book, "Epic Measures: One Doctor. Seven Billion Patients," about Christopher Murray’s audacious project to determine what is killing and plaguing people in every corner of the globe.
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- Education, Health Care
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Is Overpopulation a Legitimate Threat to Humanity and the Planet?
A recent Retro Report examines how the apocalyptic predictions about overpopulation made by the biologist Paul Ehrlich, in his 1968 book “The Population Bomb,” have not come to pass. ... But do we still need to worry about overcrowding?
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- Education, Health Care, Impact Assessment
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Vanderbilt professor hopes ‘crazy idea’ will combat malaria
A Vanderbilt University professor is working to decide if a "crazy idea" could become a crucial tool in the fight against malaria and other deadly diseases.
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- Health Care
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Logistic solutions provider MYPACCO partners with Alibaba.com
Mumbai-based logistic solutions provider MYPACCO today said it has partnered with Alibaba as part of its Trade Facilitation Center initiative, to offer comprehensive logistic solutions in the country.
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- South Asia
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