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Making a More Modern Diaphragm
How the new, very purple “Caya” is trying to make an old-fashioned birth-control option relevant again.
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- Education, Health Care
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Saving Mothers and Their Babies: Innovators working to solve problems in the hardest-to-reach regions of the world
Saving Lives at Birth recently nominated 17 promising ideas to add to its impressive and growing group of innovators. These newest innovations rose to the top from a pool of more than 750 submissions, more than half of which came from low- and middle-income countries. The program will be announcing additional nominees for transition-to-scale awards (up to $2 million) later this year.
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- Health Care, Technology
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New Trust ‘Kuwa True’ Campaign Goes Live
A super-hip campaign brings a condom brand back from the brink in Kenya.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Jayashree Industries: Achieving gender equity one sanitary pad at a time
What if a little, two-by-four inch piece of soft, cottony material could reduce gender inequality and restore the dignity of women in underdeveloped nations? Indian entrepreneur Arunachalam Muruganantham has discovered that even the most basic sanitary pad can allow for women to more fully participate in society.
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- Health Care, Social Enterprise
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South Africa: Dumping of Condoms May Flaw Distribution Numbers Says DA
Recent boasts by the national and provincial health departments at the recent SA Aids Conference held in Durban about how successfully condoms were being distributed may in fact be flawed.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Citizen Media Shows Why India Is Unlikely to Reach Its Millennium Goals Target for Maternal Mortality
According to the UN Millennium Development Goals, India should bring down its maternal mortality rate (MMR) to 109 per 100,000 live births by 2015. This is a tough ask, as from an MMR of 437 per 100,000 live births in 1990-91 India has only achieved a reduction to 190 by 2013-2014. Experts therefore believe that India is likely to miss its Millennium Development Goals target for MMR.
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- Health Care
- Region
- South Asia
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In Global Fight Against HIV, China’s Circumcision Device Makes the Cut
China wants a bigger slice of the global health market and it has a new tactic for getting it: circumcision.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Asia Pacific
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Launching Products that Meet Needs: Addressing market demand through user-centered development
Health care products generated through a holistic process that starts with good product development, and incorporates public health and commercialization perspectives throughout the process, are more likely to meet the needs of the intended user groups and other key stakeholders.
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- Health Care, Technology
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