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Melinda Gates: Still Work To Do In Maternal, Newborn Health

Eight hundred women die every day globally from causes related to pregnancy and childbirth, despite great strides in that area, philanthropist Melinda Gates said Monday. Ga...

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Festivals

The Cork Film Festival Launches Its Diamond Jubilee

It hardly seems possible, but the Cork Film Festival really has been going since the 1950s. Keeping heads above water involved quite a bit of struggle in the early days, bu...

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Health

WHO Issues New Guidance On Preventing And Treating Infections Around The Time Of Childbirth

Bacterial infections around the time of childbirth (peripartum infections) account for about one-tenth of maternal deaths globally. In addition to the high risk of mortalit...

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Sustainable Development

What Do The Global Goals Mean For Girls?

17 is a magic number. Apollo 17 went to the moon, Michelle Obama was born on January 17, John Lennon met Paul McCartney when he was 17, and I am 17 years old. But perhaps m...

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Bollywood

‘Vidya, Deepika, Kangana, Anushka And I Stand Against Disparity Shown Towards Male And Female Actors’ – Priyanka Chopra.

Female actors in Bollywood have time and again spoken about disparity shown against male and female actors in the industry. Not only in terms of pay, even when it comes to ...

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Prime Minister Modi's Energy Has Created Huge Expectations - Bill & Melinda Gates Tell NDTV's Barkha Dutt.

The world’s richest man Bill Gates today called on Prime Minister Narendra Modi to “double or more than double” what India spends on healthcare services? ...

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Health

What Will Kill Us? Not Child Health And Maternal Nutrition

Poor dietary habits and high blood pressure have replaced child and maternal malnutrition, unsafe water, sanitation and lack of hand washing as leading risks for death glob...

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Gender

UN Official Says Women Paid 24 Percent Less Than Men Globally, 30 Percent Less In Asia

A U.N. agency is mounting a worldwide campaign for equal pay for women, who get 24 percent less than men on global average and around 30 percent less for those in Asia. Rec...

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Gender

Why More Mediators Should Be Women?

The significance of 2015 continently and globally in the drive for women’s empowerment and the achievement of gender equality provides a useful backdrop to assess eff...

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Pyaasa – Guru Dutt’s Cult Classic Becomes The Only Indian Restored Film For World Premiere At The 72nd Venice Film Festival In September 2015 In The Competition Section (E)

“Pyaasa” – A timeless masterpiece by Guru Dutt becomes the only Indian film restored by an Indian company for a world premiere in the competition section ...

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