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Vodafone M-Pesa partners with WaterHealth India to serve the underserved ‘Bottom of the Pyramid’ customers
WaterHealth is a global leader in setting up decentralized water purification systems that provides safe drinking water to over five (5) million people globally. Vodafone India has partnered with WaterHealth India to facilitate its cash collection process across 450 locations in Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Gujarat, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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- South Asia
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- public health
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Visualizing stagnation: Funding stalled for global health
There’s plenty of moral and rhetorical support for fighting diseases of poverty, but if you look at global health spending trends lately the story is one of stagnation, or even decline.
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- Health Care
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- public health
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Survey: Majority of population exposed to unsafe drinking water
The majority of the population in Pakistan is exposed to the hazards of drinking unsafe and polluted water from both surface and ground water sources.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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- South Asia
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- public health
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Habitat Destruction Is Exposing Us to a Dangerous New Form of Malaria
If you’re not a doctor, you probably think of malaria as a single disease. That’s not quite right. There are several parasites that cause what we call malaria—likePlasmodium falciparum, Plasmodium vivax, Plasmodium ovale, and Plasmodium malariae—and each brings a slightly different form of the disease. Now, in a northeastern corner of Malaysia, doctors are concerned about the rapid expansion of yet another malaria-inducing parasite named Plasmodium knowlesi. Incidence of the parasite increased tenfold between 2004 and 2011, and many public-health researchers are worried things are going to get worse.
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- Health Care
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- Asia Pacific
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- public health
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Effort to Chart Global Deaths Draws Backlash
An interview with Jeremy N. Smith, author of a new book, "Epic Measures: One Doctor. Seven Billion Patients," about Christopher Murray’s audacious project to determine what is killing and plaguing people in every corner of the globe.
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- Education, Health Care
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Vanderbilt professor hopes ‘crazy idea’ will combat malaria
A Vanderbilt University professor is working to decide if a "crazy idea" could become a crucial tool in the fight against malaria and other deadly diseases.
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- Health Care
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Making Markets Work: How We Got to 10,000 Toilets
Last month, our PSI-India project surpassed 10,000 toilets in rural Bihar, one of the poorest states in India, where 99 million reside and more than 80% practices open defecation.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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Merck Opens Telehealth Clinics for Patients in Rural Africa Areas
Merck, in partnership with Kenya Ministry of Health, kicked off their first telehealth clinics at both of Kenyatta National Hospital in Nairobi and Machacos Hospital as a part of their e-health initiative in Africa.
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- Health Care
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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