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How Your Business Can Help End the Global Water and Sanitation Crisis: Highlights from a New Report
Businesses are key to achieving Sustainable Development Goal 6, which calls for reaching everyone, everywhere with taps and toilets by 2030. A new report from WaterAid, CEO Water Mandate and WBCSD spells out an “ideal” approach to water, sanitation and hygiene which businesses could implement in their supply chains – and how that investment can contribute to core business values, both ethically and financially.
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- Environment, Health Care, WASH
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OPINION: A CDC for Africa
The idea for Africa's own Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) was devised in 2013 and formalized after the worst Ebola outbreak in history the following year. The Africa CDC, which was officially launched in January of this year, is a growing partnership that aims to build countries' capacity to help create a world that is safe and secure from infectious disease threats.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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The Neighborhood Toilet Champion
“The waste water was always coming out of my compound and into the street!” exclaims Monsieur Theodore Danho, a landlord in the crowded capital city of Abidjan, Cote D’Ivoire.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- public health
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Transforming Waste Management, and Waste-Pickers’ Prospects, in Bengaluru
In February, Ennovent Global's Impact Investment Holding invested in Hasiru Dala Innovations, a Bengaluru-based company offering waste management services. The firm's initiatives, centered on the circular economy principle, provide waste management and urban gardening services and products, and also help ensure the livelihoods of waste-pickers, improve facilities for Bengaluru residents and divert over 90 percent of waste from landfills.
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- Environment, Investing, WASH
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Philanthropy King: Bill Gates Gives Away $4.6 Billion, Unveils New Campaign To Combat Malaria
Gates gave away $4.6 billion in Microsoft shares in June to his personal charity, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, according to a filing published Monday by the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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- Health Care
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OPINION: Historic health plan led by Africans for Africans
The continent’s leading health figures debated and discussed a continent-wide campaign to tackle key bottlenecks to health solutions in Africa. At the heart of this was the clarion call to African governments to prioritize health care in their countries, to do more to retain local health professionals and curb the exodus of their skills to foreign markets, and for more investment in supporting African health research to ensure locally-relevant- and- led health solutions.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- public health
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Turning Puffs Into Pesos
The Philippine’s Secretary of Health, Dr. Paulyn Rossell-Ubial, shares with Asian Scientist Magazine how her country has turned a tax on smoking into a health intervention.
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- Health Care
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- Asia Pacific
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- public health
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South Africa: Could Better Health for Your Baby Come in a Cardboard Box?
Almost 40% of pregnant women in South Africa's public health sector go for their first check-up only after their 20th week of pregnancy, figures from the Health Systems Trust's 2015/2016 District Health Barometer show.
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- Health Care
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- public health