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Panel spikes government’s rural healthcare plan
The government’s plan to create a new cadre of trained individuals to provide basic healthcare in villages has received a setback with the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Health rejecting the proposal.
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- South Asia
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- public health
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Mozambique leads from the front in battle against Aids
Mozambique is using new technology to improve diagnosis and treatment for people living with HIV.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- public health
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Water for all
NEARLY three-fourths of all diseases caused in India are due to water contaminants. Despite that, one in eight Indians still lacks access to clean drinking water.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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- South Asia
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India’s Primary Health Care Needs Quick Reform
Primary health care delivery needs to reinvent itself. Only then can India aim for universal health coverage.
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- South Asia
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- public health
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Ban tells public health educators to get involved in post-2015 development agenda
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called on the global public health academic community to be active partners in the future development framework as the international community starts to set its post-2015 anti-poverty goals.
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- Health Care
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- public health
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IDB’s assignment: A proposal to reform private sector operations
The Inter-American Development Bank’s annual meeting has concluded with a lot of promise for businesses in the region, from the establishment of a new Chinese cofinanced fund to a plan to streamline the activities of the bank’s private sector windows.
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- Uncategorized
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- Asia Pacific
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Connecting the dots between vaccines and hunger
Comic Relief started as a response to the 1984 famine in Ethiopia. Any solution to the persisting problem of global hunger must factor in immunization.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- public health
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Questioning the TOMS Shoes Model for Social Enterprise
After visiting Argentina and seeing the impact of poverty on some of its children, Blake Mycoskie was inspired to create a philanthropic “for-profit business that was sustainable and not reliant on donations.” The result was Toms Shoes, which promised that for every pair of shoes it sold, it would give away another pair to a child in need.
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- Uncategorized
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- Latin America