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Africa: Closing the Gap – Meet Aims to End Extreme Poverty
When 17-year-old Sona Traore represented the Child Protection Network of Liberia at a civil society event organized in conjunction with a three-day United Nations meeting in this capital city earlier this month, she knew she was not speaking for Liberian children alone.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Nutrients For All: Envisioning a new food system
Being fully nourished is a must for good health, but in an alarming global trend, our foods are losing nutrients at each stage of our environmental and food systems. We need to ensure that vital nutrients are generated, preserved, and conveyed from soil to food, and from food markets to people. Our health, human productivity and economics depend on it.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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- nutrition, public health
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Q&A: Inovio CEO on DNA Vaccines
One area of biotechnology that has drawn a lot of attention in recent years is DNA vaccines.
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- Health Care
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- Asia Pacific
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- public health
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6 Innovations That Will Change Healthcare
When economists, data scientists and medical professionals team up, the result is often remarkable innovation.
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- Health Care
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- public health
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Here’s how many fewer AIDS patients would be treated after sequestration
Members of Congress have left Washington without having made a deal to avoid the deep across-the-board spending cuts to federal agencies slated to begin March 1, and agency heads are already lamenting the potential damage to both foreign and domestic programs.
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- Health Care
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- public health
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6 Innovations that will change health care
When economists, data scientists and medical professionals team up, the result is often remarkable innovation.
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- Health Care
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- public health
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Game Changer?: The campaign to train one million African health workers – Part 2
The One Million Community Health Workers campaign is launching an ambitious effort to achieve the UN’s Millenium Development Goals in health care - in one of the world’s most impoverished regions. In part 2 of our interview, project co-chair Dr. Prabhjot Singh discusses the ways the initiative could impact business development.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- public health
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Global Health Needs More Statistics
What is the best way to estimate how many people suffer from tuberculosis, from the forests of Central Africa to the highlands of Peru?
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- Health Care
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- public health