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Despite Progress, Immunization of African Children Falling Short
Researchers say that despite progress immunizing African children against disease, vaccination efforts are falling far short of what’s needed.
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- Health Care
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- public health
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A Plan to Chart Heart Risk in 1 Million Adults in Real Time
Researchers are launching a major study that will marshal the power of smartphones and other personal technologies in an effort to develop new strategies for preventing and managing heart disease.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- public health
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Serving the poor, but operating like a business
At a time when public sector resources are limited, and every philanthropic dollar must go further, there is a robust debate in the international development community about how to achieve development goals with less money.
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- Agriculture
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Bankers ride boom in social enterprises
Putting private capital to public service is booming in Asia, and some investment bankers are quitting their high-profile jobs to support "clean and green" enterprises.
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- Uncategorized
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- Asia Pacific
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Deepa Gangwani: Fomenting Change for Indian Trash Collectors
A shocking incident involving her maid and a trash collector helped set Deepa Gangwani on her quest to help the poor communities near where she lived in India.
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- Technology
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- South Asia
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World food security and what young Africans can do about it
Leaders in sub-Saharan Africa, a region with the world’s fastest-growing and youngest population, seek to create more agriculture jobs.
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- Agriculture
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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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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- Health Care
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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