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Bill Gates Predicts Eradication Of Polio In Pakistan By 2017

Bill Gates said Wednesday that "with any luck" polio will be eradicated by 2017 in the last two countries where it remains active, Pakistan and Afghanistan.

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Health

Communicable Diseases Rise 32 Perccent In 5 Years, Spending Up 7 Percent

Spending on programmes to control India’s three main communicable diseases — malaria, tuberculosis and leprosy A — increased seven percent over five years...

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Human Rights

Safai Karamcharis To Appeal To PM Modi For Eradication Of Manual Scavenging

Next month, a day before Modi visits the birthplace of BabasahebAmbedkar to mark the latter's 125th birth anniversary, a large group of Dalits and safaikaramcharis seeking ...

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Environment

Why Eradicating Earth’s Mosquitoes To Fight Disease Is Probably A Bad Idea

But what would a world free of mosquitoes look like? Would it be an Earth in which the infectious diseases that plague millions are completely, permanently, and mercifully ...

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Health

2015 In Review: Rapid Strides In Public Health

The end of 2015 brings many reasons for celebrations in health sector. We made considerable progress towards achieving the MDGs, SDGs were launched with more ambitious goal...

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Health

Launch Of Inactivated Polio Vaccine In India

India, once considered the most difficult place in the world to stop polio, will celebrate five years without a case this January. But our fight against the disease is not ...

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Boosting Coherence To Make Poverty Eradication A Reality

I recently launched the 2015 edition of the European Commission’s report on Policy Coherence for Development — or PCD — that show...

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Environment

Boosting Coherence To Make Poverty Eradication A Reality

I recently launched?the 2015 edition of the European Commission?s?report on Policy Coherence for Development?? or PCD ??that?shows that the European Union remains a PCD-fro...

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Health

BMC, MDACS Join Hands To Eliminate New HIV Cases

Building on the success of the Pulse Polio programme, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has begun work on total eradication of new HIV cases and aims to achieve ...

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Hollywood

Connie Britton Named As United Nations Development Programme Ambassador

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has appointed American actress Connie Britton as its newest Goodwill Ambassador, with a special focus on poverty eradication...

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