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Billionaire Jeff Skoll’s Participant Media Details Plans To Launch Its Own Cable Channel
Jeff Skoll, the former eBay executive who is dedicated to solving the world’s big problems, has just taken a step to expand his movie company Participant Media – the company behind An Inconvenient Truth, Food Inc. and The Help — into cable TV.
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IFC Announces Partnership to Increase Access to Affordable Sanitation in East Africa
Nairobi, Kenya — IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, today announced support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to catalyze the market for improved sanitation and accelerate access to more affordable sanitation solutions for low-income households in East Africa.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Delhi Dispatch: Rice, Wheat, and Water Serve Up Equal Helpings of Punjab’s Wealth and Risk
NARAINGARH, Haryana, India — The first rain in six months, and a stout and cold wind whipped at the black plastic covering stacks of grain Thursday morning at the Shivshakti Rice Mill, one of 13 mills surrounding this roadside village about 70 kilometers west of Chandigarh.
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- Agriculture, Environment, Health Care
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- South Asia
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- nutrition
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Ambassador Goosby to lead new Office of Global Health Diplomacy at the U.S. Department of State
Ambassador Eric Goosby, who serves as U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator. has been named to lead the new Office of Global Health Diplomacy at the U.S. Department of State.
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Maternal health gets a boost in Malawi
On a gray Wednesday morning in the Malawian capital of Lilonge, a group of young people perform a skit for philanthropist Melinda Gates who has come to visit their recreational centre, a drafty room with wooden, board walls and a corrugated iron roof that don't quite meet.
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Vaccine Rule Is Said to Hurt Health Efforts
A group of prominent doctors and public health experts warns in articles to be published Monday in the journal Pediatrics that banning thimerosal, a mercury compound used as a preservative in vaccines, would devastate public health efforts in developing countries.
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Social Innovation: India Gives Cash Directly to the Poor
In January 2013, India will start the world's biggest social innovation programme: giving cash directly to its poorest citizens in a bid to reduce its very large problem of corruption that stops subsidised goods and welfare benefits from reaching those who really need them. This initiative will affect at least 720 million people—a population almost the size of Europe!