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World Bank chief calls for ending extreme poverty by 2030
World Bank President Jim Yong Kim called for a commitment by the international community on Tuesday to end extreme poverty by 2030 and to improve the lives of the most vulnerable people living in developing countries.
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India’s salt workers get help from social enterprise
The hostile desert landscape in the Little Rann of Kutch in western Gujarat state is where 10,000 small-scale labourers produce salt. About 70% of India's salt comes from Gujarat, where 70,000 people are self-employed in the industry. India is the world's third-largest salt producer, after China and the US.
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Rethinking TB vaccines
As researchers consider who might benefit most from the next wave of tuberculosis (TB) vaccines, some argue that we're not doing enough with the vaccine we already have.
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- Health Care
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- public health
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Africa: HIV/Aids – New Investment in Point-of-Care Evaluation
International medicines financing mechanism UNITAID will invest more than US$140 million to evaluate point-of-care HIV diagnostic and monitoring technology in seven African countries.
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- Health Care, Impact Assessment
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Clever Packaging: Essential Medicine Rides Coke’s Distribution Into Remote Villages
Simon Berry is piggybacking on Coca-Cola’s distribution system to bring life-saving medicine to the places that need it most.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- public health
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Accurate TB tests needed in the private sector
More affordable tests should be introduced in the private sector as 70% of Indians seek private medical care for TB.
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- Health Care
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- public health
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Root Capital Tops $500 Million in Cumulative Lending to Rural Enterprises in Africa and Latin America
The nonprofit agricultural lender Root Capital announces today that it has hit a major milestone, topping $500 million in cumulative lending to more than 425 small and growing businesses providing some 750,000 small-scale farm families (3 million individuals) with better livelihoods in poor, environmentally vulnerable locations in Africa and Latin America.
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- Latin America
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Investors commit over Rs 400 crore for funding new ventures for the poor
BANGALORE: Investors have committed at least Rs 400 crore to a government-backed fund that will provide capital to new ventures serving the needs of India's low-income communities. The fund, whose eventual size is envisaged at more than Rs 5,000 crore, is the first such by the government, which is taking increasing interest in venture capital investing.
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- South Asia
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