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Snapshots Make All The Difference In The World For UN’s 17 Goals

The United Nations has proposed 17 goals and 169 targets as the SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals) for a more sustainable environment. The target or the self-imposed dead...

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16 Million Reasons To Be Optimistic About Polio

People often ask me how I know the world is getting better. I usually point to numbers like this one: Because of efforts to eradicate polio by groups like Rotary Internatio...

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Salman, Deepika And Other Stars Who've Eradicated Stigmas About Health Battles

Salman Khan showing no inhibitions in stating that he suffered from facial nerve disorder has encouraged many to discuss health issues more openly - especially the ones tha...

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Chinese Appetite For Totoaba Fish Bladder Kills Off Rare Porpoise

Only 30 vaquita are left in Gulf of California as pirate fishermen net them when fishing for highly valued totoaba maws The world’s rarest marine mammal is on the ver...

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India, Neighbours, Push For Leprosy, Kala Azar Elimination By 2020

Countries in the WHO South-East Asian Region including India today resolved to fast-track efforts to eradicate and eliminate neglected tropical diseases (NTD) such as lepro...

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A Pregnant Pause And Child Rights

In the wake of the staggering prevalence of practicing overseas commercial surrogacy in India,the Surrogacy (Regulation) Bill, 2016 was proposed in Lok Sabha in the last we...

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The Standing Rock protests are a symbolic moment

This past Thursday was Thanksgiving. A time when we remember a feast, the first Thanksgiving, on Plymouth plantation in the autumn of 1621. The tales of pilgrims from the M...

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Fight Hunger Foundation To Reach Out To 1 Million People Nationally By 2018

Fight Hunger Foundation (FHF), the NGO leading the drive against malnutrition in India, today announced its pledge to eradicate the nation’s acute malnutrition crisis...

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This Year's Nobel Prize Winner's Research Could Transform Cancer Treatment

Japanese scientist Yoshinori Ohsumi, 71, won the 2016 Nobel Prize on Monday for his research on autophagy ― a metabolic recycling process in which cells eat parts of them...

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What If... A Letter From The CEO Of The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

One question unites those of us who work at the Gates Foundation: What if?
What if infectious diseases could no longer wreak havoc on poor communities? What if women a...

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