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Anti-Science Environmentalists Ban ‘Neonic’ Insecticides, Imperiling Global Health
Some of history’s greatest advances in public health – especially in regions plagued by insect borne diseases – have come from the judicious use of pesticides to kill or repel the insect vector before it can infect human populations. Because the market for public health pesticides is relatively small, however, most of these vital chemistries were developed for larger agricultural uses. Unfortunately, that source of new products is increasingly under threat from shortsighted environmentalism and the European embrace of “precautionary” regulation.
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- Education, Health Care
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Malaria spreads to higher altitudes due to global warming
Malaria, the deadly mosquito-borne virus that brings debilitating chills and fever in many parts of Southeast Asia and Africa may soon seek higher altitudes on account of global warming, experts warn. New research has found that people living in the highlands of Africa and South America are at an increased risk of catching malaria during hotter years.
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- Health Care
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Girl Power: SHOFCO’s tuition-free schools in Kenya linking communities to health services
Shining Hope for Communities, which is creating girls’ schools in Kenyan slums and linking community services to them, has been recognized for making health care more accessible.
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- Education, Health Care
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Mobile Movies Is A Novel Way Of Collecting Data In Off-The-Grid Areas
In the late 1960s, the British Ministry of Technology turned buses into mobile cinemas that toured the country and screened films promoting modern production techniques. Half a century later, a Singapore-based startup is reviving the concept to reach rural communities throughout Southeast Asia.
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- Education, Health Care
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- Asia Pacific
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Fixing Health Care in India: Roundtable participants looking at incentives, disincentives embedded in the system
A small group of bureaucrats, practitioners, entrepreneurs and academics have identified priorities in Indian health care and hope to design real-time priorities to address them.
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- Education, Environment, Health Care
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- public health
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Secrets to a Successful mHealth Campaign
At the Mobile World Congress last week (25 February) I listened to Arjen Swank, business development manager of Text To Change (TTC), discuss the best way to implement a successful mobile health programme in Africa.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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The Ticket to Ride a ‘Smart’ Bus Includes Public Health Info: Engaging, educating and learning from Nairobi commuters via SMS
A recent project shows that public transit can be a great platform for research and education, and has the potential to give small businesses an effective communication and marketing facility that previously only large companies could afford.
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- Health Care, Technology
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Africa: Mobile Mast Vaccine Storage Project Wins Global Prize
An organisation that uses surplus energy from mobile phone masts to refrigerate vaccines in remote areas was named as the Best Mobile Health Product or Service at the Global Mobile Awards this week.
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- Health Care
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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