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10 Outrageous Things You May Have Heard About VaccinEs

There’s lots of hot air circulating about vaccines. We’re here to set the record straight, because vaccines are at the heart of our work – keeping childre...

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Health

World Health Day To Focus On Food Safety This Year

Food poisoning and diarrhoeal infection are the two leading causes of food-borne illnesses in India. Moreover, due to lack of laboratories and shortage of manpower, many ou...

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Sustainable Development

What Mobile Tech Innovation Offers Food Security

Humanitarian organizations delivering food assistance in conflict-affected areas or regions plagued by natural disasters or outbreaks of epidemic diseases cannot do their j...

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Health

Why India Needs A Universal Immunisation Programme To Boost Its Healthcare.

As India embarks on its promise of universal health coverage (UHC), one should look at the healthcare system in a country like Cuba. Despite limited resources and economic ...

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Thought Factory

Apathy, Waste And The Rhetoric Of Concern

Rafi Nagar, Deonar, Mumbai
April 2012

The auto-rickshaw stopped at the corner of the narrow road. A large mound of garbag...

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Health

Airplane Poop Could Help Track Global Disease Outbreaks

IN THE SUMMER Of 2013, Researchers At The Technical University Of Denmark Headed To The Copenhagen Airport For A Special Delivery: Poop. The Crew Who Clean Out Airplane Toi...

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Health

Airplane Poop Could Help Track Global Disease Outbreaks

IN THE SUMMER Of 2013, Researchers At The Technical University Of Denmark Headed To The Copenhagen Airport For A Special Delivery: Poop. The Crew Who Clean Out Airplane Toi...

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Health

A Depression-Fighting Strategy That Could Go Viral

When Ebola ends, the people who have suffered, who have lost loved ones, will need many things. They will need ways to rebuild their livelihoods. They will need a functioni...

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Health

8 Facts About Vaccines: How They Work, Who's Getting Them, And Who's NOT Getting Them.

Endless scientific research has shown that vaccines do an excellent job of controlling and even eradicating diseases. They prevent about 2.5 million deaths per year and sav...

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Melinda Gates has the perfect response to the anti-vaccine movement

On the heels of the measles outbreak at Disneyland, Melinda Gates of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation took aim at the vaccine naysayers who make these types of disease...

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