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Gates pledges $776M for malnutrition, unlocks UK commitments
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation — the world’s largest private foundation — will spend $776 million over the next six years to fight malnutrition, a strong signal of support for a historically underfunded sector, according to the foundation’s leaders.
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- Health Care
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- nutrition, philanthropy
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Food Safety in Southern Africa – Rethinking World Health Worries
The theme for World Health Day, held on 7 April 2015, was 'From farm to plate - make food safe.' The main motivation for the theme was the alarming amount of bacteria borne diseases across the globe, transmitted by eating food which is contaminated by bacteria, viruses, parasites or chemical substances.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- nutrition
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South Africa: KZN Launches Human Milk Banks
Far too few South African women practice exclusive breastfeeding and, as a result, far too many children are dying.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- nutrition
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Analysis: Golden Rice in India: Is It Necessary? What Are Impediments to Adoption?
There is a saying in Chinese used to wish others well that means, “may you never live in interesting times.” In a complex world full of conflict, disease, and death, the idea of living in a simpler world without the plagues of the present must seem comforting to most. Sadly, this is not the world we live in, no matter how much one may wish it into reality. For those living in rural India, life can be a constant struggle.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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- South Asia
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- nutrition
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The Key to a Global Nutritional Crisis Might Be a Simple Iron Fish
In 2009, Christopher Charles came up with a surprisingly simple and astonishingly effective tool to increase dietary iron intake without resorting to pills: A small metal fish – a symbol of luck in Cambodian culture – that can infuse food with the proper amount of necessary iron to ensure better overall nutrition.
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- Education, Health Care
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- South Asia
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- nutrition, public health
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India Needs to Improve Healthcare As Part of Global Millennium Development Goals: WHO
India and many other southeast Asian countries need to improve their record on public healthcare, the WHO said today as it warned that the world will fall short in achieving the UN's Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) on many indicators by the end of this year.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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- South Asia
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Comic (Book) Challenges to Chronic Problems: How students face the challenges of malaria, malnutrition through graphic novels, collaboration
For the third year in a row, fourth- and fifth-grade students at the American International School of Bamako in Mali collaborated with Mali Health and students from three local schools to create graphic novels on health-related issues.
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- Education, Health Care
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Rich Mom, Poor Mom: Growing Gap in Global Access to Maternal Healthcare
A new report by Save the Children says mothers and children in the developing world are particularly at risk. But some countries, like Ethiopia, have made major gains in the last decade.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- nutrition