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Why India’s air pollution is so horrendous
A whopping nine in 10 people on Earth breathe highly polluted air, and more than 80 percent of urban dwellers have to endure outdoor pollution that exceeds health standards, according to the WHO’s World Global Ambient Air Quality Database.
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- Environment, Health Care
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- South Asia
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Infant Deaths Fall Sharply in Africa With Routine Antibiotics
Their large study — of nearly 200,000 children in three African countries — raises the exciting possibility that deploying antibiotics as doctors do vaccines could rapidly reduce deaths among newborns and infants.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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UN health agency launches first global monitoring system for dementia
The United Nations health agency (last) Thursday launched the first global monitoring system for dementia, which is expected to affect 152 million people worldwide by 2050 – triple the current 50 million – amid the aging of the global population.
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- Health Care
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- aging, dementia, global health, public health, UN, United Nations, WHO
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Study: 1 in 10 medical products in developing countries is substandard or falsified
“Substandard and falsified medicines particularly affect the most vulnerable communities,” says Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General. “Imagine a mother who gives up food or other basic needs to pay for her child’s treatment, unaware that the medicines are substandard or falsified, and then that treatment causes her child to die. This is unacceptable. Countries have agreed on measures at the global level – it is time to translate them into tangible action.”
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- Health Care
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The world is off track in its goal to eliminate malaria. Here’s why.
“We are not seeing the progress that had been achieved in the past being sustained,” Pedro Alonso, director of the WHO’s Global Malaria Program, told reporters in a telephone briefing last week. “Reductions in disease and death have ceased, and we are therefore not on track to meet the 2020 target.”
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- Health Care
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India’s health ministry moves to limit antibiotics in meat
The ministry's decision follows studies indicating that India's antimicrobial resistance problem is expected to worsen due to overuse of antibiotics in animals reared for consumption.
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- Health Care
- Region
- South Asia
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- antibiotics, food, global health, India, public health, WHO
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Toilet Board Coalition Rallies Global Businesses Around Sanitation Economy
New research released for World Toilet Day (November 19) shows that the ‘Sanitation Economy’ could generate $62 billion in economic activity in India alone by 2021 — and the opportunity is even larger worldwide for multi-national corporations and entrepreneurs alike.
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- Entrepreneurship, Health Care
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As the eradication of polio nears, a new crisis for global health looms
“People need to start talking about this issue. Because it’s much wider than just polio and a polio-free world,” said Laura Kerr, who wrote the report. “It’s to do with immunization systems that could collapse.”
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