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Pfenex And PATH Partner On Vaccines
Pfenex Inc., a clinical-stage biotechnology company engaged in the development of high-value biosimilar therapeutics and difficult to manufacture proteins, today announced the initiation of a multi-product research program with PATH.
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- Health Care
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How the private sector can pitch in to help combat Ebola
While health workers on the ground continue to struggle to contain the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, the United Nations, international nongovernmental organizations and other donors are appealing to the private sector for help.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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At UN General Assembly, global health projects are big business
Leaders from 140 countries gathered this week at the UN General Assembly in New York City amid a set of global crises that include war in Iraq and Syria as well as Ebola in Africa.
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- Health Care
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PRESS RELEASE: Unilever and USAID Call for a World-Wide Hygiene Intervention for Newborns
Handwashing with soap is one of the most cost-effective ways to reduce preventable diseases like diarrhea and pneumonia, which are the main causes of child mortality.
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- Education, Health Care
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Major donors launch new fund to support innovation
For some time now, major bilateral donors have been working independently to fund innovations and support startups, but a group of them announced Tuesday a new fund where they will pool capital to spur creative, pioneering interventions to tackle global development challenges.
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- Uncategorized
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Gates Foundation to Aid India in ‘Toilets For All’ Program
The Urban Development Ministry and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation have agreed on a partnership to promote user-friendly toilets to ensure universal sanitation in the country.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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Keeping Up With Education Innovations: New portals provide insight into growing number of programs serving the world’s poor
The Center for Education Innovations has introduced new portals, organized by topic and country, to provide analysis, news and resources about the growing number of innovative education programs serving the world’s poor.
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- Education, Impact Assessment
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PRESS RELEASE: PepsiCo Unveils New Water-Modeling Tool at World Water Week
Wednesday at the Stockholm International Water Institute's annual World Water Week, PepsiCo announced the company's latest Water Report and unveiled Hydro-BID, a ground-breaking data management and modeling tool developed in partnership with the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) that estimates the availability of freshwater in water-scarce regions throughout Latin America and the Caribbean.
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- Agriculture, Health Care, Technology
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- Latin America
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