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More than half of the doctors in India not medically qualified: WHO
More than half of the doctors in India are not medically qualified, a report titled "HealthWorkforce in India" by the World Health Organisation (WHO) has claimed. According to the report, in rural India, only 18.8 percent of the allopathic doctors qualified. The report is based on the data taken from each district in the country based on Census 2001.
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- Health Care
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All That Data: What Health Researchers Can Do With Pokemon GO
Nearly one in five Australians use an activity tracking device daily or nearly daily. Of the people who use activity trackers, three-quarters are prepared to share that data, on the proviso that it is anonymously used for health and medical research.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- South Asia
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SAP and ISB collaborate to jumpstart social enterprises
SAP and the Indian School of Business (ISB) are collaborating to nurture the social entrepreneurship ecosystem with relevance to national priorities. The ISB-SAP Social Enterprise Jumpstart will identify five social enterprise startups and provide training, mentorship and access to networks to accelerate their growth.
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- Education
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- South Asia
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Centre mulls over plan to stop ASHAs from distributing condoms
Faced with angry Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs) refusing to distribute repackaged condoms called Asha Nirodh given free under the national reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health, the Union health ministry is exploring other distribution options, which may include vending machines.
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- South Asia
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- public health
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Health ministry seeks help from private sector to curb over-population
Perturbed over population explosion, the Union Health Ministry has reached out to the private sector for dispensing family planning services in poor performing states. Starting with high population areas, the National Population Stabilisation Fund, under the Union Health Ministry, has invited an Expression of Interest from qualified and experienced agencies for implementing family planning services.
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Singapore Government Joins IBM to Create Blockchain Innovation Center
Computing giant IBM has revealed that the Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB) and the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) are collaborating with it to establish its first Center for Blockchain Innovation in the country. The Innovation Center is expected to involve both global banks and fintech startups and to develop a number of technology pilots for the finance and trade industries, built on the Linux Foundation Hyperledger platform.
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Social entrepreneur and Magsaysay Award winner Anshu Gupta on trash-based parallel economy
In India, he is simply known as the Clothing Man. He is a social entrepreneur and the recipient of prestigious Ramon Magsaysay. In 1998, Anshu Gupta left his corporate job and founded GOONJ with a mission to make clothing a matter of concern and to bring it among the list of subjects for the development sector.
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- Impact Assessment
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More Cambodians struggling to repay MFI loans
Banking industry insiders expressed concern yesterday over a spike in the amount of delinquent debts reported by microfinance institutions (MFIs) across the Kingdom, which they attributed to farmers struggling to repay their loans after adverse weather conditions affected their crops.
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- Uncategorized
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- South Asia
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- microfinance
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