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Nearing A Deadline, Is The World Going To Meet The Millennium Development Goals?
The latest UN appraisal shows progress, but in some areas, such as child mortality and biodiversity loss, we're falling short.
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- Impact Assessment
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TPP: Still a Terrible Deal for Poor People’s Health
When the intellectual property (IP) chapter of the U.S.-led Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement was leaked late last year, it confirmed everything public health watchers had warned about for years.
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- Health Care
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Medanta-The Medicity: World class health care, with a soul
Dr Naresh Trehan's vision for his latest venture is to emulate the best-in-class health care facilities in the world
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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- governance, public health
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New Contraceptive Shot Being Released in Africa
An easy-to-use new form of the injectable contraceptive Depo-Provera was introduced last week in Burkina Faso, the first of four African countries in which it will be rolled out this year.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Mobile health in Africa: MDiabetes program: Mobile technologies are catalysts for development
Mareeg.com-DAKAR, Senegal,July 14, 2014/ – Alcatel-Lucent (http://www.alcatel-lucent.com) attended the ceremony for launching the m-Ramadan campaign, which originated from the mDiabetes program, in Dakar on June 16, 2014.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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mHealth initiative to curb infant and maternal fatalities in Kenya
In a bid to reduce the glaring rates of child and maternal deaths annually estimated at 6.6 million and 260,000 respectively, Sub Saharan-African states are set to launch a mobile phone text messaging service to educate masses on better health care and nutrition.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Mobile payments ideal for Africa
In emerging markets, mobile money has the power to transform lives, says Gemalto.
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- Uncategorized
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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IBM signes deal worth Rs 550 crore with microfinance firm Janalakshmi Financial Services
NEW DELHI: International Business Machines (IBM) has signed a deal worth Rs 550 crore with microfinance firmJanalakshmi Financial Services, according to people familiar with the discussions. IBM's consulting division, along with its Institute of Business Value, is leading the engagement, a person familiar with the transaction said.
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