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Antimicrobial Resistance Is Being Called A Sustainable Development Issue
As the report notes, “Clean water in hospitals has a huge impact on reducing infections and the spread of antibiotic resistance.” Yet one-third of hospitals in developing countries lack running water. Thus there’s a clear case for investing in the basics.
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- Health Care
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The Drive to Embed ‘Planetary Health’ Impacts Within Corporate Sustainability Strategy
The connection between the health of the planet, the quality of the air and the cleanliness of our drinking water have very direct impacts on health.
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- Environment
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Innovative Child Malaria Vaccine Test Starts in Malawi
"This is a landmark moment for immunisations, malaria control, and public health," Dr Kate O'Brien, Director of Immunisation and Vaccines at the World Health Organization, told the BBC.
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- Health Care
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Artificial Intelligence for Social Change
AI can consistently provide trusted, personalised healthcare information to large populations, and when responsibly designed, can help people access the resources they may need.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- South Asia
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In a Poor Kenyan Community, Cheap Antibiotics Fuel Deadly Drug-Resistant Infections
Antibiotics, the miracle drugs credited with saving tens of millions of lives, have never been more accessible to the world’s poor, thanks in large part to the mass production of generics in China and India. Across much of the developing world, it costs just a few dollars to buy drugs like amoxicillin, a first-line antibiotic that can be used against a broad range of infections, from bacterial pneumonia and chlamydia to salmonella, strep throat and Lyme disease.
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- Health Care
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- public health
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Reimagining the World’s Dirtiest Job: How Pit Vidura is Professionalizing Waste Management
Around 2.7 billion people – 35 percent of the world’s population – use on-site sanitation systems that are not connected to sewers. When they become full, they need to be emptied – a job that’s often done manually, presenting hazards to both the workers and their communities. Pit Vidura is tackling this challenge in Kigali, Rwanda, offering safe hygienic pit latrine and septic tank emptying for people in hard-to-reach areas. Katie Sottilare discusses the company’s innovative approach, and the impact it’s having.
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- Social Enterprise, WASH
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Press release: New Report Makes Case for Tobacco Divestment
"Though individual investors may not realize they're funding the proliferation of harmful tobacco products, it's common practice in the asset management industry to use tobacco stocks to diversify," said Genus' VP of Sustainable Research, Mike Thiessen. "Our tests show that divesting from tobacco as far back as 1999 would not have negatively affected financial returns for investors. As such, we're proud to be among the first firms in Canada to go tobacco-free."
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- Investing
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- ESG, impact investing, public health
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Here’s Why TPG Turned Down Vaping Startup Juul
“We had an opportunity to invest early on,” TPG Co-CEO and Founding Partner Jim Coulter told Fortune Tuesday following a Reuters Breakingviews event. Namely, the firm looked into Juul at the start of 2018 but decided against making an infusion over concerns about the morality of such a call.
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- Investing
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