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The most significant threat to global health is the rise of non-communicable diseases (NCDs). These conditions — including cancers, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, mental illness and respiratory conditions — are responsible for two-thirds of death and disability globally. And because they disproportionately afflict people in developing countries, they are strongly linked with development and social justice.
Perspective: Flying solo weakens chronic disease fightBlog Post
After over 50 years of internal armed conflict between the national government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, the country is starting to lay the foundations for a stable and lasting peace. The business sector has been called on to contribute to the post-conflict process, and inclusive businesses offer a clear way to do so. However, though Colombia's traditional approach to inclusive business has produced significant results for enterprises and communities, the impending post-conflict era demands a re-evaluation of how the sector operates.
Post-conflict Colombia: A Crucial Time to Re-evaluate the Role of Inclusive Business
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Ghana is now in the process of rolling out telemedicine — a remote method of diagnosis and treatment of patients using telecommunications technology — to expand healthcare delivery, especially to women and children, a meeting has heard.
Ghana to roll out telemedicine after successful trialCalendar Event
Entertainment for Social ChangeBlog Post
In this week's extensive Roundup, we remember Jo Cox, who was an extraordinary global health advocate; look at the leverage held by smallholder farmers; and wonder if Littlecabs will end up being a big headache for Uber in Kenya. Plus plenty more.
Roundup: Jo Cox remembered, investors collaborate and Kenyan cabsBlog Post
In the developing world, over 2 billion people lack an official ID, preventing them from accessing services vital to robust economic and political lives, such as bank accounts. Digital identity offers an unprecedented opportunity to level the playing field for each unique person on this planet, helping them raise themselves, and their countries, out of poverty.
Identity is Everything: Creating a Digital ID FutureNews
A study commissioned by MasterCard indicates that nine out of 10 transactions in Jamaica are done by cash or cheques, underscoring the problem of costly informality, according to the global card company.
Cash Is Costly in the Caribbean, Says Mastercard StudyNews
This week, the World Health Organization called on countries everywhere to step up the war on tobacco advertising and promotion by introducing plain, or standardized, packaging of tobacco products. "Plain packaging reduces the attractiveness of tobacco products," said WHO Director-General Margaret Chan. "It kills the glamour, which is appropriate for a product that kills people."
Cigarette packs are being stripped of advertising around the world. But not in the US.
