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Malaria resurgence in Africa has health authorities scrambling for new weapons
Could the much-maligned DDT become the new pesticide of choice?
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Banker Saves 20,000 From Nepal to Uganda With Her Profits
Amid the cloying dust, blaring car horns and beggars’ wails that echo through the ancient streets of Kathmandu, Nepal, a familiar sound emerges: the strains of pop star Psy’s “Gangnam Style.”
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- Impact Assessment
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World Bank changes senior staff to continue anti-poverty agenda
Two top executives at the World Bank are set to leave the institution this year in a move at a crucial time for the bank’s evolving focus on poverty reduction in the next decade.
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- impact investing
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The Airborne Infection That Beats Antibiotics: North Korea’s Other Crisis
Throughout history, TB has killed more people than all other pandemics combined.
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- Health Care
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- Asia Pacific
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Can collaboration resuscitate global health funding?
As support for global health projects declines, governments, NGOs and the private sector will have to be creative and commit to collaboration
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- Health Care
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Colombia is world’s first country to wipe out river blindness – WHO
Colombia has become the first country in the world to eradicate river blindness through the distribution of an anti-parasitic drug in affected parts of the South American nation and a sustained health education campaign in local communities, the World Health Organization (WHO) has said.
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- Health Care
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- Latin America
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Breast-feeding woes: Mexico sees dramatic drop of moms nursing, raising concerns over health
Despite the well-known advantages to breast milk and vigorous campaigns around the world championing breast as best, Mexican mothers say the bottle is better.
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- Health Care
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- Latin America
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In Kenya, Using Tech To Put An ‘Invisible’ Slum On The Map
If you were to do a search for the Nairobi city slum of Mathare on Google Maps, you'd find little more than gray spaces between unmarked roads.
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- Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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