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India’s health ministry moves to limit antibiotics in meat
The ministry's decision follows studies indicating that India's antimicrobial resistance problem is expected to worsen due to overuse of antibiotics in animals reared for consumption.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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- public health
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Toilet Board Coalition Rallies Global Businesses Around Sanitation Economy
New research released for World Toilet Day (November 19) shows that the ‘Sanitation Economy’ could generate $62 billion in economic activity in India alone by 2021 — and the opportunity is even larger worldwide for multi-national corporations and entrepreneurs alike.
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- Health Care
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A Global State of Mind
Mental illness knows no borders. One relentless Indian psychiatrist pushes to make treatment a standard around the world.
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- Health Care
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- public health
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Reimagining Slums: Innovative Solutions to Bangladesh’s Urban Housing Dilemma
Bangladesh's housing deficit has quadrupled in the last decade and, in the absence of adequate measures, it is projected to increase to 8.5 million units by 2021. Due to extreme demand and lack of rent control in slums, housing prices are sky-high. BRAC's Asif Saleh and Mahira Khan say these challenges highlight an opportunity for testing out models for urban development that leverage government, private business and the development sector.
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- Investing, Uncategorized
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A Formula for Health Equity
What could an economically advanced country like the United States possibly learn from the health-care success of a tiny, impoverished African country like Rwanda? Two things: how to broaden access and improve health outcomes while sharply reducing the cost of care.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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To Fight Global Threat of Antibiotic Resistance, WHO Issues First-Ever Guidelines to Curb Use
To address the major and growing global threat that stems from rampant overuse and misuse of antibiotics in agriculture, the World Health Organization (WHO) this week issued its first-ever formal guidelines instructing farmers to stop using so many antimicrobials in healthy livestock.
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- Health Care
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- public health, regulations
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Millions either malnourished or obese in global nutrition crisis
Researchers behind the Global Nutrition Report, which looked at 140 countries, said the problems were “putting the brakes on human development as a whole” and called for a critical change in the response to this global health threat.
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- Health Care
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- nutrition, public health
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Africa’s Richest Man Aliko Dangote Pledges $100 Million To Fight Malnutrition In Nigeria
Aliko Dangote, Africa’s richest man, has pledged to invest $100 million over 5 years to tackle malnutrition in Nigeria’s worst affected regions.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa