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India gang rape case highlights lack of toilets
LUCKNOW, India (AP) — The two teenage girls had walked out together at night, as they did every night, into the wild bamboo fields 10 or 15 minutes from their mud-and-straw huts to relieve themselves. Like millions of families across India, they had no toilet at home.
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Telemedicine in India might be just what the doctor ordered
Between surgeries and hospital rounds one recent day, Dr. Rajiv Parakh made a dash into his Gurgaon office for an appointment he couldn’t miss: a consultation with a patient who lives hundreds of kilometres away.
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Ending poverty and growing markets: brass tacks for business – live chat
Selling to - and serving - the 'base of the pyramid', or the world's poorest people, is easier said than done. What will it take to get it right? Join our live chat at noon ET/5pm BST on 10 June
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Tigo, Airtel, Zantel announce Africa’s first interoperable mobile money agreement
Three major telecoms companies operating in Tanzania – Tigo, Airtel and Zantel – are to adopt interoperable mobile money services by the end of the month, the first agreement of its kind of Africa.
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How Mobile Phone Carriers Are Helping Insure The 4 Billion People Who Live Without A Safety Net
With this system, every time a customer tops up his SIM card, he gets free insurance coverage. The model helps carriers increase brand loyalty and gets people in poverty comfortable with the emerging concept of micro-insurance.
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‘Millions denied end-of-life drugs’
Lack of access to pain relief for dying patients is a "public health emergency", say experts.
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Fighting Deadly Disease, With Grains of Rice
TOKYO — Yoshikazu Yuki and other researchers at the University of Tokyo are bioengineering rice in a bid to turn it into an easy and low-cost storage and delivery medium for drugs to combat common infectious and contagious illnesses.
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OPINION: Exploring the Millennium Villages Project: has it improved lives in Africa?
Two leading global philanthropists, Jeffrey D. Sachs and Bill Gates, debate the impact and progress of the Millennium Villages Project, which aims to improve lives in 20 African countries over the course of 10 years.
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