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Full steam ahead for healthcare providing ‘trains of hope’
The Phelophepa train draws a crowd wherever it goes. The sound of the lumbering 19-car clinic-on-rails signals the arrival of badly needed free healthcare for thousands of South Africans as it tours the country.
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- Education, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- public health
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Saving Lake Atitlán: Women-Focused Business Provides Clean Water – and Good Jobs
After seeing that Guatemala's Lake Atitlán, where she was baptized, was contaminated, leaving thousands without jobs and clean water, Francesca Kennedy founded the social enterprise Ix Style. The company employs local female artisans to make Huarache sandals and bags, and donates 15 percent of proceeds to purchase water filters for families in Guatemala.
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- Environment, Social Enterprise
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A Simple, Painless Way Governments Can Help the Poor and the Environment
In Haiti there’s a 15 percent tariff and tax on clean cookstoves. Based on elasticity of demand, Dalberg projects that if improved cookstoves’ taxes and tariffs were eliminated, their annual sales would increase by 13 percent, from 185,000 to 209,000. This in turn would mitigate costs associated with health and environment consequences of traditional cooking techniques.
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- Environment, Health Care
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Sub-Saharan Africa not winning friends in the medical device market
BMI gives the region the lowest average country risk score due to systemic economic and political risks, pressurised aid flows and corruption. Sub-Saharan Africa ranks the least attractive region to commercialise medical devices because of the region’s poor operational environment and barriers to access healthcare, Fitch’s research arm BMI said in a recent report.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- public health
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Five Bright Spots and Four Causes For Worry From The First Official Indian Health Survey In A Decade
The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare finally released the findings of the fourth National Family Health Survey (NFHS), India's primary source of data on public health, on Tuesday. The NFHS-4, which is meant to be conducted every five years, comes after a ten year gap this time because of differences of opinion between the government and its partners.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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- public health
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A New Class of Toilets
“Excuse me. May I use your toilet?” Meseret Workneh takes great joy in hearing this ordinary request. Only five months ago, this twenty-seven-year-old mother of one could barely make ends meet from selling coffee on the side of the road. Now she manages her own public pay-for-use toilet in Africa’s largest open air market, Merkato, in Ethiopia’s capital.
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- Health Care
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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A new genetic tool maps how deadly viruses spread around the world in real time
We remain utterly unprepared to deal with epidemics at a global scale. Just think of Ebola, which killed more than 11,000 people, or Zika, which left thousands of newborns with malformed brains and has now become an endemic disease.
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- Health Care
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India Plans Health Scheme to Save $121 Billion Every Year
A national level program to eradicate blindness is being running across India since 1976 but corruption and inadequate government funding failed to improve the situation.
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- Health Care
- Region
- South Asia
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