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India to track toilet use with tablets

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is launching a nationwide online programme to check whether people are using toilets as part of his cleanliness drive. From next month, officia...

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Thought Factory

Looking Back With Concern- Health 2014

A Snapshot of Global Health- 2014

  • Between 2000 and 2012, measles deaths worldwide have been cut by almost 80% ??from 56...

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Sustainable Development

Suicide Rates Among Indian Youth Highest in the World

Suicide rates among Indians age 15-29 are the highest in the world, according to a recent report from the World Health Organization (WHO). The most recent numbers available...

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Health

New Measles Report: 3 Reasons We Need to Step Up Our Work

Parents around the world want their children to have the chance to lead healthy, productive lives. The measles vaccine is an essential public health tool to protect childre...

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Health

Chronic Diseases Are Killing More in Poorer Countries

Chronic diseases like cancer and heart disease are rising fast in low- and middle-income countries, striking far younger populations than in rich countries and causing much...

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Health

2 dose HPV vaccines recommended by WHO to protect against cervical cancer

Girls can be vaccinated with two doses of HPV vaccine to protect against cervical cancer instead of three, the World Health Organization now advises, based in part on Canad...

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Hollywood

FIFA Brings Top Players Together To Fight Ebola

Top international football players are joining forces with world football’s governing body FIFA, the Confederation of African Football and health experts to raise glo...

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Health

Sanofi Introduces Pentavalent Paediatric Vaccine ‘Shan5’ in India

Sanofi Pasteur, the vaccines division of Sanofi, has launched its paediatric pentavalent vaccine, ‘Shan5’, developed and manufactured by its affiliate Shantha i...

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Health

Greed of Drug Industry Cited by World Health as Reason for Lack of Ebola Vaccine

“A profit-driven industry does not invest in products for markets that cannot pay,” she said, according to The New York Times. “WHO has been trying to mak...

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Health

Immunising children is a growth strategy

This has been a truly extraordinary year for India. Not just because 2014 saw more than half a billion people cast their vote in the world’s largest democratic electi...

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