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Top 10 Global Health Issues to Watch in 2014
The past year has given us plenty of global health successes to celebrate.
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- Education, Health Care
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- nutrition
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Business Scales Up Action to Combat Global Malnutrition
Announced today at the World Economic Forum in Davos, forty global companies have now joined together to take global action against malnutrition.
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- Education, Health Care
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- nutrition
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‘Nation’s economic situation influences health of people’
Academique, an inter-disciplinary group in the DST Centre for Interdisciplinary Mathematical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University (BHU) held a discussion on 'Social determinants of health' in the 275th session on Sunday.
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- Health Care
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Cash Or Credit? How Kids Pay For School Lunch Matters For Health
American kids have a problem with obesity, according to the most recent studies. In fact, the closest thing we have to good news about childhood obesity is that kids are not gaining weight as rapidly as they were some years ago. Researchers may have identified one surprising new factor in why kids are overeating.
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- Health Care
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Heifer International Receives $25.5m Grant to Expand Its East Africa Dairy Development Program
Heifer International received a $25.5 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to expand the East Africa Dairy Development (EADD) project and assist more than 136,000 farm families in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania.
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- Education, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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A third of adults across world now overweight or obese
More than a third of all adults across the world are overweight or obese, a report from a British think-tank has revealed, leading to calls for governments to do more to tackle the growing crisis.
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- Education, Health Care
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- nutrition
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Is Africa Widening or Rising?
Africa may or may not be “rising” but it's certainly widening. Obesity is on the rise, and is rising fast.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- nutrition
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Women’s access to life-saving contraception increases in Kenya
There are 222 million women in developing countries who wish to prevent or delay childbirth but who are not using modern contraceptives, according to the World Health Organization.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa