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Kangaroo Mother Care: saving newborn lives

Neonatal mortality remains unacceptably high in Tanzania. Additionally, low birth weight babies are particularly susceptible to infections and need extra care to keep warm ...

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10 Women Who Are Disrupting Global Health And Tech

There’s something about the rising humidity, the pre-dawn birdsong, the flowers we forgot we planted. It’s a disruptive, yet hopeful feeling—which makes i...

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Harnessing The Data Revolution And Improving Land Management Through Geospatial Technology

Advances in earth observation, computing power, and connectivity have tremendous potential to help governments, and us at the World Bank, support better land management, an...

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Nanotechnology To Play Key Role In Health & Environment Issues’

Nanotechnology is poised to play a key role in the spheres of health, food production, food preservation and all environment and security-related issues, a noted scientist ...

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India's Doctors Learn Safer Abortion Techniques To Cut Maternal Deaths

Lying in bed clutching her abdomen, a young Indian woman leans over her toddler to retrieve some pain relief from the stash on her bedside table at a private hospital in De...

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Mobile Phones: Patriarchy's New Red Alert

Villages are imposing mobile phone bans on young women in order to control their new independence and mobility. It started with KhapPanchayats in Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and...

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Dubai Provides An Ideal Platform For Young Talent - Dr Shravan Kumar

Dubai is a melting pot of cultures and we thought we could provide an ideal platform for young talent to showcase their creativity and learn first-hand about different aspe...

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US School Girls Develop App 'Pharm Alarm' To Help Alzheimer's, Dementia Patients

Six young school girls in the US are currently developing an app to help patients suffering from Alzheimer's and dementia, remember to take their medications.
The seve...

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How Digital Tech Is Improving Women's Health and Wellbeing in India

This Tuesday, March 8, communities across the world will celebrate International Women's Day, a campaign highlighting the social, economic, cultural and political achieveme...

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Spread Disrupting Gender Stereotypes

For those who think that gender inequality in the UK is just a pipeline issue that will surely resolve itself in time, What Works may come as quite a shock. As ch...

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