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Looking For A Bathroom? Google Will Take You There – If You’re In India!
Sometimes, the only directions you need are to the nearest bathroom. And now, Google is providing you with just that. That is, if you’re in India. To address what CNBC describes as a “nationwide problem of open defecation and urination,” Google and the Indian government have embarked upon a new partnership to create a toilet locator app that takes users to the nearest public washroom.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- South Asia
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New Ebola Vaccine Trial Results Offer Hope
A new Ebola vaccine may be the first to successfully protect against one of the world’s most lethal pathogens, according to a trial involving over 11,000 participants in Guinea.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Opinion: Here’s How To Make Healthcare More Accessible Now
Expanding access to healthcare is one of the most critical priorities of our time. According to the World Health Organization, 400 million people around the world do not have essential health services – that is more than the entire population of the United States. The situation is even more challenging in rural areas, where 7 in 10 of the world’s poor live today.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- public health
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Nigeria announces policy proposal to restructure inefficient primary healthcare system
To make Nigeria’s inefficient primary healthcare system effective, the government plans an overhaul that could lead to some sort of financial autonomy for individual health centres.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- public health
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Indian households’ healthcare woes
The low penetration of health insurance and high health costs expose Indian households, especially those at the bottom of the pyramid, to severe financial shocks, according to fresh data from a large-scale nationally representative survey.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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Ethiopia’s Great Health Reform
Edna lives in a village on the outskirts of Berhale, roughly 900 kilometres from Addis Ababa. Every day, she travels through the desert to deliver essential health services to families' doorsteps. As a front -line health worker, Edna is part of a historic movement that has extended primary health care to the poorest and most marginalised communities and saved millions of lives.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- public health
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Social startup creates business-in-a-box solution to empower women
When digital strategist Jovana Korac first heard that many South African girls missed school because they couldn’t afford to buy sanitary products, she was appalled. It isn’t a South Africa-only problem either.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Baxter Buys Claris’ Generic Injectables Subsidiary for $625M
Claris Injectables will add to Baxter’s sterile medication production and delivery offerings, the buyer said, by adding capabilities in production of essential generic injectable medicines—such as anesthesia and analgesics, renal, anti-infectives, and critical care—in a variety of presentations including bags, vials, and ampoules.
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- Health Care
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- public health
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