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Can Satellites Solve the Farmer Suicide Crisis in India?
Researchers from the University of California, Berkley, have found a strong correlation between rising temperatures and the rate of suicides, with an increase of 1 Celsius associated with an average of about 70 additional suicides per day. Droughts have ravaged the country’s crop yields, sharply reducing farmers’ income across the sector and disrupting the predictability of revenue.
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- Agriculture, Environment, Technology
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- South Asia
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- agtech, climate change
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Q&A: A conversation with Hilton Foundation CEO, Dhaka-awardee on health solutions
“It is easily, easily treatable if you know how to treat it,” said Clemens, a medical doctor with a background in infectious diseases. “The problem is that in many places where cholera occurs, the local health care providers and physicians don’t have the experience.”
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- Health Care
- Region
- South Asia
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India Stack: To serve the underserved
Technology platforms can have a deep impact if it touches the underserved segments of the population. Keeping this in mind, Dalberg Advisors and iSPIRT have thrown open a competition to entrepreneurs to build their innovative solutions on India Stack platform.
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- Technology
- Region
- South Asia
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Medical loans: Oxxy making health care affordable
In a country where a majority of poor and middle class households do not have a safety net for tackling health expenses, Oxxy has offered a bouquet of services to have affordable options for its customer base, starting from getting them up to 50% discount on medical expenses to getting all the medical expenditure to be paid in easy monthly installments.
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- Health Care
- Region
- South Asia
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India grants Pfizer patent on pneumonia vaccine in blow to aid group
The decision by India's patent office bars other companies from making cheaper copies of the vaccine and allows Pfizer to exclusively sell it in India until 2026. It's a big victory for the U.S. drugmaker in a market that has the world's largest number of pneumonia cases, a lung disease that kills nearly a million children a year globally.
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- Health Care
- Region
- South Asia
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- vaccines
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Bollywood’s hot new topics: open toilets, menstrual hygiene and erectile dysfunction
This is not about defecation,” says the hero of Toilet: Ek Prem Katha, which translates as Toilet: A Love Story. “It is about our whole way of thinking!” What makes this startling line all the more surprising is that it is delivered by Akshay Kumar, an actor straight out of the Bollywood A-list.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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A Woman In India Just Won A Divorce Over A Toilet. Here’s Why That Matters.
The family court hearing this woman’s case found the lack of a toilet cruel because it meant “outraging the modesty of a woman.” The court added, “We spend money on buying tobacco, liquor, and mobile phones, but are unwilling to construct toilets to protect the dignity of our family."
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- Health Care
- Region
- South Asia
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- SDGs
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Tata Trusts’ FISE to raise $30 mn to fund social startups
The fund claims to be the country’s first-ever technology-focused fund investing in high-impact social enterprises. Called Social Alpha Fund-1, it is the third tier of the Social Alpha stack being built with Tata Trusts and the Foundation for Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship (FISE), said Manoj Kumar, co-founder and chief executive of FISE.
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- Investing
- Region
- South Asia
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