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Scaling Up What Works: Study focuses on using the private sector as a way to increase the effectiveness of primary care services
Most global child mortality could be prevented through effective primary care interventions. To help meet these basic needs, the Rapid Routes to Scale group is detailing ways to scale up primary care in low- and middle-income countries.
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Maternal health in India much worse than previously thought, new study finds
More than 40 percent of women in India are underweight when they begin pregnancy, according to a new study published by Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
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- Education, Health Care
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- South Asia
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Power of the User: Lessons learned from mHealth usability testing and tips for your innovation
The Institute for Reproductive Health, working with iHub, has been doing research on its family planning products, focusing on the human element and the user experience. They compiled some lessons learned and tips for integrating usability testing to improve technology.
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Corporations are the Missing Link: Private sector is uniquely positioned to improve newborn survival in India
India accounts for 27 percent of global newborn deaths, the highest in the world. Dasra, a Mumbai-based strategic philanthropy foundation, has been conducting research which highlights a critical “missing link” that can help India address newborn survival at scale: corporates.
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- Education, Health Care
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Peaks Unclimbed: Former Malawi President Joyce Banda discusses how the Millennium Development Goals have failed to deliver for girls and women
According the United Nations’ official MDG Progress Chart, two of the goals lagging furthest behind are MDG 3 – which aims to promote gender equality and empower women – and MDG 5 – which aims to improve maternal health. "How can we tell (the women of the world) that their health and equality simply wasn’t a priority?” asks former Malawi President Joyce Banda in this rare interview.
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- Education, Health Care
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The one dollar contraceptive set to make family planning easier
An agreement has been signed which will make contraceptive injections available to women in 69 of the world's poorest countries.
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To end preventable maternal mortality, let’s explore ‘business as unusual’
When you think of efforts to reduce maternal mortality, it’s natural to look to governments, theUnited Nations, the World Health Organization and other national and international bodies charged with responding to global health challenges.
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Weekly Roundup 11-15-14: New worries about India being the ‘pharmacy of the developing world’
India is known as the “pharmacy of the developing world." That’s why it was so scary to learn this week that tainted medicines might have been behind the botched government-run sterilizations there. We discuss that story, and other global health developments, in this Roundup.
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