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Here’s how many fewer AIDS patients would be treated after sequestration
Members of Congress have left Washington without having made a deal to avoid the deep across-the-board spending cuts to federal agencies slated to begin March 1, and agency heads are already lamenting the potential damage to both foreign and domestic programs.
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- Health Care
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6 Innovations that will change health care
When economists, data scientists and medical professionals team up, the result is often remarkable innovation.
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- Health Care
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- public health
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Entrepreneurship: One Answer to Poverty
In his State of the Union address President Barack Obama placed a spotlight on global poverty and the 1.2 billion people on the planet who stay alive on around $1 per day.
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South Africa ‘needs coherent energy policy’
Sout Africa must create a coherent energy policy or it will continue to struggle to rely on power utility Eskom and millions of South Africans will remain in energy poverty, World Energy Council head Christoph Frei said on Tuesday.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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I promote farming to get people out of poverty
Following the success of Upland rice that Professor Gilbert Bukenya promoted throughout the country while he was Vice President, he is planning a similar exercise in the near future. He talked to Daily Monitor's Dorothy Nakaweesi about that and more.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Brazil’s Rousseff says extreme poverty almost eradicated
President Dilma Rousseff on Tuesday raised the monthly stipend of 2.5 million people living below the poverty line to make good on her promise to eradicate extreme poverty in Brazil, a nation with enormous income gaps between rich and poor.
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- Latin America
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Why Social Enterprise Attracts Women
From Rwanda to Shanghai, women are setting up new businesses with social and environmental change at their heart. Charlotte Sankey asks what’s driving them.
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Five food issues to watch out for
Who or what do you blame when the price of maize seems to keep going through the roof? If you did not mention fuel subsidies, then you need to read this list of emerging food issues in Africa.
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- Agriculture
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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