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India: Households opt for biomass fuelled stoves

As the Indian Government has restricted the supply of subsidized LPG cylinders to households, the households in villages around Quepem in Goa have turned to Biomethanation units that produce biogas from kitchen and vegetable waste. Read more here.

October 1, 2012

Pollutant Emissions and Energy Efficiency under Controlled Conditions for Household Biomass Cookstoves and Implications for Metrics Useful in Setting International Test Standards

Thus far, the initiatives for clean cookstoves aimed at reducing the amount of IAP (Indoor Air Pollution) that have failed, failed because of inadequate testing outcome in ‘field’ conditions. This study details the outcome of clean cookstove tests using six fuel types under ‘realistic’ conditions. Read more here and download […]

October 1, 2012

Food for Hungry has a successful deworming campaign in Burundi

According to the WHO, as many as 400 million children suffer from intestinal worms worldwide. The results are stunted growth, an irreversible phenomenon for children. Many regions in most developing nations have no easy or cost effective access to deworming. International charity Food for Hungry has furthered the goal of […]

October 1, 2012

India: Fortis to set up low cost hospitals in Tier II and III cities

Fortis Healthcare is planning to set up a number of low cost hospitals in India’s Tier II and III towns and cities. This is part of an effort to tap the semi-urban healthcare market which consists of huge untapped market potential. Fortis plans to set up 25 multispecialty hospitals with […]

October 1, 2012

Low cost baby scanner reveals foetus defects

British engineers from Newcastle University, UK, have been able to develop a low cost hand-held foetus scanner which is high in efficiency and is able to detect problems same as conventional scanners. The difference lies in the cost – this handheld scanner, which can be plugged into any device costs […]

October 1, 2012

Bangladesh’s urbanization creating a healthcare black hole

Dhaka in Bangladesh is home to sprawling slums, which get pushed increasingly far out to the city’s fringes. The administration does not acknowledge, let alone take responsibility for these voluntarily displaced people and healthcare has emerged as an area of concern – with hospitals already working on a 50 per […]

October 1, 2012

Ethiopia: Red Cross provides water-relief

As many as 1500 people living in the Tahtay Adiyabo region in northern Ethiopia benefited from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) initiatives of building four wells for access to clean drinking water. Read more here.

October 1, 2012

Making sanitation subsidies effective

This post compiles data from the IRC Water and Sanitation Centre event wherein subsidies for sanitation availability in the developing world was discussed. It is imperative to find out from these arguments the rationale for subsidies being successful in one region while sometimes failing in others to understand what works […]

October 1, 2012

Uganda: Kiboko Enterprises launches ‘One billion sanitation campaign’

Uganda loses US$177 million annually due to poor sanitation. Because of this dire condition of sanitation in the country, Kiboko Enterprises in Uganda has launched a sanitation campaign worth UGX 1 billion, wherein medicated soaps and clean water will be provided to several schools, and a total of 375,000 households […]