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Sustainable Development

Hidden Hunger: A Silent Epidemic

The Global Hunger Index report recommends returning to traditional diets comprising locally available, biodiverse food to overcome growing under-nutrition The global hunger...

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Sustainable Development

New financing facility to help poor countries reach 2015 development goal

Additional funds will speed up progress on women and child health in developing countries To give developing countries an extra push in achieving their health-related Mille...

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Environment

The UN climate summit reveals India's hypocrisy on saving forests

Environment minister argues for historical justice on cutting carbon, but denies it to tribes living in the country?s forests On Tuesday, India?s minister for environment, ...

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Health

Taking healthcare to India’s remote tribes

The right to good healthcare must be addressed using modern technology, innovative approaches and by involving tribals in developing solutions for their problems in his add...

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Sustainable Development

Can the world meet its hunger reduction target?

One in every nine persons in the world goes hungry: UN State of Food Insecurity Report Asia houses 526 million of the 805 million chronically undernourished people in the w...

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Sustainable Development

Ethical 3D printing begins with plastic waste pickers

Pick the right plastic off a refuse tip, then shred, melt and convert it into feedstock for 3D printers – it’s a living for some of India’s poorest people...

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Health

New drug target could prevent major global cause of maternal death

Postpartum haemorrhage (PPH) occurs when the uterus fails to contract vigorously after childbirth and the mother loses 500mls or more of blood in the 24 hours after deliver...

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Health

Redesigning Birth Control in the Developing World

How single-use injectable contraceptives could change family planning in Africa. Access to birth control just got significantly easier in four African countries. Sayana Pre...

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Health

Drink Soda? Take 12,000 Steps

People who consume the sweetener fructose — which is most people nowadays — risk developing a variety of health problems. But the risk drops substantially if th...

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Health

Gates Foundation awards $25 million to HIV vaccine research

Oregon researchers developing a vaccine that has shown promise in preventing HIV infection in primates said on Wednesday they have been awarded a $25 million grant from the...

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