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Recent Developments, <br /> Key Innovations, and <br /> Insightful Reports

Recent Developments,
Key Innovations, and
Insightful Reports

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Biochar cookstoves boost health for people and crops

Combining the benefits of clean burning stoves with stoves that burn biomass in a clean and smokeless way to produce biochar (biochar burned in oxygen-free environment), is the newest trend in propagating the health causes of both people and crops in rural areas of developing countries. Social enterprises like SeaChar […]

February 6, 2013

Indoor air pollution increases risk of cancer in non-smoking Chinese women

According to a new research conducted by UB School of Public Health and Health Professions, the rate of lung cancer in Chinese women is among the highest in the world, despite the fact that less than 4 per cent of Chinese women smoke. This high rate of incidence is attributed […]

February 6, 2013

Empowering women to reduce indoor air pollution in India

This post by the Center for the Advanced Study of India (CASI) of the University of Pennsylvania uses as a hypothesis, the empowerment of a woman and her increased decision making prowess in a household, as a measure of adoption of clean cooking mechanisms in India. Read the results here.

February 6, 2013

Household fuels, low birth weight, and neonatal death in India: The separate impacts of biomass, kerosene, and coal

This study indicates that household use of high-pollution fuels is significantly associated with increased chances of low birth weight, and neonatal death. Results indicate – coal increases risk of neonatal death, and biomass increases the same for infants born to women with no more than primary education. Read the report […]

February 6, 2013

Socio-cultural acceptability of improved cook stoves (ICS) in rural Malawi

Not a lot of clean cookstoves studies centre on the socio cultural perception of cooking in rural areas. Concern Universal, thus conducted this study in rural Malawi, to understand the efficiency, acceptance, effectiveness and usage of ICS. Read the report here.

February 1, 2013

Inovio and MVI partner to develop malaria vaccines using innovative vaccine delivery technology

Inovio Pharmaceuticals, in collaboration with MVI, or the PATH Malaria Vaccine Initiative, will develop new malarial vaccines and also test innovative delivery mechanisms. Read more here.

February 1, 2013

Opportunity for social entrepreneurs in the healthcare and energy sector

The Global Social Benefit Incubator or the GSBI’s deadline for this year coming up fast – applications by social enterprises in the healthcare or energy sector are to submit their applications by January 11th to win a scholarship woth US$25000. 15 applicants will get this scholarship. Read more here.

February 1, 2013

First TB drug approved in 50 years

A new TB drug, first in almost 50 years, called bedaquiline, must be made available across low income countries with masses of its population suffering from drug resistant form of the deadly virus, according to MSF, or Doctors Without Borders. Read more here.

February 1, 2013

Global check-up – most people are living longer, but sicker

According to Lancet’s Global Disease Burden report released recently both men and women of the world – even in the poorer parts of the world, are living longer. However, the people of the world are not living sicker than before. Read more here.