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India to checkmate cross-border polio threat
While India gears up to receive WHO certification, Pakistan is polio endemic with 59 cases reported this year, say delegates at a brainstorming Polio Plus orientation and planning workshop in Madurai.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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Africans once protected against malaria face new risk
While virus P. vivax causes some 65 percent of malaria in India and is endemic in many other parts of the world, much of Africa has remained immune.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Global healthcare system needs an overhaul
Absence of adequate regulatory controls, treatment guidelines, and patient awareness have led to a global surge in antibiotic resistance, says a team of experts; two of them are from India.
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- Health Care
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Training Rural Liberians To Save Lives
Last Mile Health (known in Liberia as Tiyatien Health) aims to bring quality health care and jobs to remote regions of Liberia.
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- Education, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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3 Ways That Business Can Alleviate Poverty
Business has become a dirty word. Doing business with the poor seems taboo, shocking, unthinkable. But what if business could improve the lives of the world's poorest people?
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- Impact Assessment
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A Merry-Go-Round That Turns The Power Of Play Into Electricity in rural Ghana
Empower Playgrounds is providing electricity-generating playground equipment to impoverished schools in rural Ghana.
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- Energy, Impact Assessment
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Meet ‘Assassination Market’ Creator Who’s Crowdfunding Murder With Bitcoins
As Bitcoin becomes an increasingly popular form of digital cash, the cryptocurrency is being accepted in exchange for everything from socks to sushi to heroin. If one anarchist has his way, it’ll soon be used to buy murder, too.
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Kenyan businesses offer global insight
A number of business models originating in the country have offered global lessons on financial inclusion, ranging from mobile money, banking to insurance.The World Bank, in a new report titled ‘Global Financial Development Report 2014: Financial Inclusion’, cites various examples of success of various business models in the country that have helped deepen financial inclusion.
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