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Why Business of Building Toliets Depends on Debunking Sanitation Myths
Sanergy is successfully using a variety of strategies to unwind people’s habits of using unhygienic sanitation and adopting Fresh Life toilets.
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- Health Care
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‘SuperMum’ campaign results in startling improvements in people’s hand-washing behavior
An analysis of a unique "SuperMum" (SuperAmma) handwashing campaign shows for the first time that using emotional motivators, such as feelings of disgust and nurture, rather than health messages, can result in significant, long-lasting improvements in people's handwashing behaviour, and could in turn help to reduce the risk of infectious diseases.
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- Education, Health Care
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- South Asia
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Developing-World Disease Vaccines Being Prepared for Human Tests
The fight against poverty-related diseases is gaining ground as scientists prepare trials of vaccines for hookworm, leishmaniasis and other parasitic diseases common in the developing world, thanks to the support of public research funding.
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- Health Care
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- public health, vaccines
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From Operating Rooms to Dust Tracks, Part 2: How Operation ASHA moved beyond rhetoric to action
After serving Delhi’s slum dwellers for more than a decade with free surgeries, Dr. Shelly Batra realized her work wasn’t sustainable. That’s when she and Sandeep Ahuja decided to start an organization focused on only one health problem in India: TB.
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- Education, Health Care, Social Enterprise
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From Operating Rooms to Dust Tracks, Part 1: How a doctor found the ‘invisible poor,’ then founded an organization to help them
Dr. Shelly Batra had it all, including a job at a plush corporate hospital with the best equipment. But when she gathered her courage one day and entered a New Delhi slum, her life changed forever. She ended up returning to the slum time after time to treat the sick, and eventually that led to her "dream job" at Operation ASHA.
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- Education, Health Care
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‘Deepening’ medical crisis in Afghanistan
Despite years of aid, medical care in Afghanistan remains severely limited as casualty rates from violence climb, humanitarian organisation Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) warns in a report.
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- Health Care
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e-health Centre Soon in Ghatshila Subdivision
The electronic health centre that will commence at Musabani Surda in March has the capacity to diagnose 90 patients each day.
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- Health Care
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India, UK hold talks to expand cooperation in health sector
Aiming to expand their cooperation in health sector, India and the UK today held talks to indentify more partnerships at national and state levels to further the collaboration.
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- Health Care
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