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How to make financial inclusion work for women in India
A striking thing in the BJP’s maiden budget was integrating gender in the macroeconomic policy framework.
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- South Asia
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Stopping Disease With A Simple Innovation: New Floors
A Stanford University student re-invents an ancient earthen material--adobe--to work well in a country where dirt floors can cause death.
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Random decisions in pharma pricing bad for India’s health
On July 10, the National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) arbitrarily fixed prices for all anti-diabetic and cardiovascular drugs outside the scope of the Drug Price Control Order (DPCO) 2013, with no warning to manufacturers.
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Ebola and ethics: Are rich nations doing enough to fight the outbreak?
The Ebola outbreak in West Africa is a matter of justice and ethics, experts said Tuesday. This has to do with medical testing and international funding.
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Ebola outbreak spreads fear in rural Sierra Leone
Weeks under the strain of bad news, much uncertainty and no direct support are taking a toll on rural towns like Rotifunk, in Bumpeh Chiefdom, the focus of my all-volunteer nonprofit Sherbro Foundation Sierra Leone.
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Dengue vaccine is just a year away, researchers say
A new vaccine that can halve the number of dengue cases provides a welcome shot to fight a deadly disease that infects around 390 million people every year in the tropics.
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OPINION: Ebola shows the need to rethink global public health
NEW YORK - The horrific Ebola epidemic in at least four West African countries (Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Nigeria) demands not only an emergency response to halt the outbreak; it also calls for rethinking some basic assumptions of global public health.
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How far off are drones in the delivery of rural care?
A Silicon Valley startup called Matternet is pioneering a pilot program that uses drones to connect rural care providers with major hospitals in Bhutan.
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