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February 19, 2013
Asia Sustainable Investment Review 2012
The Asia region seems to be gaining on sustainable investment practices, no longer behind the industrialized world, as is apparent from data in the Asia Sustainable Review 2012. While ESG investment in Asia, due to lack of reliable measures is still a new concept, it has still become a ‘significant’ […]
February 19, 2013
UNDP chief calls for a permanent focus on NCDs
Helen Clark, UN Development Programme’s administrator conveyed a message to the global development community that the only way to ensure that non communicable diseases are on the agenda of all organizations. Despite the increase of global funding of about 3 per cent, NCDs remain a problem due to the increase […]
February 19, 2013
Novartis makes progress in global fight against leprosy
International pharmaceutical company Novartis recently partook in the celebrations of the one year anniversary of the coordinated effort to eliminate or control 10 neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) by 2020. The company advanced its goals set as a part of a coordinated and global effort to eliminate or control 10 NTDs, […]
February 19, 2013
Researchers work on developing new HIV vaccines
This post talks about the potential advances and breakthroughs that may be seen in the research for HIV, especially with the launch of MIT and Harvard University’s joint initiative – the mission of Ragon Institute. Read more here.
February 19, 2013
Why the world needs ‘tri-sector’ athletes
The world is witnessing the seemingly irreviersible problem of rising healthcare costs, outpaced by economic growth and expenditure capabilities of people. This problem is alike to water scarcity, and access to education, and according to Dominic Barton, Worldwide Managing Director of McKinsey and company, the coming together of business, government […]
February 19, 2013
Afghans flock to India for infertility treatment
War torn Afghans have been forming a part of the migrant community to be found near some of Delhi’s largest private hospitals. Due to this traffic from Afghanistan, a number of private healthcare players in Delhi have been benefitting from what is called medical tourism. Read more here.
February 19, 2013
Health in hard places
Healthcare spending has been increasing faster than economic growth in the OECD countries, and nowhere is this outmatch as significant as in the developing countries, where a lack of resources leads to the death of some 9 million people die each year from diseases that can easily be treated. Read […]
February 19, 2013
India: Women’s lives put at risk by private healthcare providers
This post covers the number of reports coming from India about shocking incidences of private doctors performing hysterectomies and caesareans on poor, ill-educated women, by exploiting their lack of knowledge and rights – all to keep a lucrative flow of money coming in. Stories of women going in for a […]
February 19, 2013
Pneumonia taking a toll on children in developing countries
A new global study estimates that as many as 12 million children under the age of 5 are hospitalized with chest infections and diseases like pneumonia and bronchiolitis, each year. Each year, about 265,000 of these children die in the hospitals. Read more here.
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