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Prospective Study of One Million Deaths in India: Rationale, Design, and Validation Results

The Million Death Study is a biannual study that covers 1 million households in India, to try to uncover healthcare trends, with the goal of promoting policy changes. According to Prabhat Jha of the Centre for Global Health Research in Toronto, several compelling trends are already emerging. About 75% of […]

December 26, 2013

Global Health 2035: A World Converging within a Generation

This new report sets forth an interesting framework which attempts to close the health disparities between the wealthiest and the poor nations through integrated and sustained investment. The report seeks to establish why investing in healthcare should be the development priority, and promotes tackling malaria, AIDS, TB, and other NCDs […]

December 26, 2013

LED Solar lantern and charger from Panasonic

Panasonic’s solar LED lantern and charger is a part of the company’s campaign “Panasonic’s 100 Thousand Solar Lantern Project”. In 2012, the company supplied 2000 such lanterns to schools, medical facilities and microenterprises in Cambodia. In the plans now, are 5000 units for India, 3000 for Myanmar and 2000 to […]

December 26, 2013

How potatoes can power the world

Researchers over at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem found out a couple of years ago that a potato boiled for 8 minutes can make 10 times more battery power than one that has not been boiled. At one-tenth of the cost of a typical AA battery, a potato can supply […]

December 26, 2013

How solar powered lighting may be the way to breaking India’s rural poverty cycle

Many parts of India suffer from the lack of lighting, due to no access to central grid. Several other regions get electricity only for a small part of the day. Low cost solar lanterns which help families save on (approx.) INR 160 per month worth of kerosene count for brighter […]

December 26, 2013

Bangladesh launches country action plan for clean cookstoves

The Global Alliance of Clean Cookstoves has helped mobilize the power division of Bangladesh to launch a Country Action Plan (CAP) for the creation and scale of clean cookstoves market in the country. The country has set itself a target of complete adoption by end of 2030. Read more here.

December 26, 2013

DFID pledges funding to help women access clean energy

The Department for International Development (DFID) recently announced its plans to fund decentralized energy in the developing world, by funding projects that will provide electricity and clean cooking options to those deprived of it. DFID will be pledging a sum of £4.5 million to the ENERGIA International Network, and another […]

December 26, 2013

USAID chooses winners to overcome challenges in Kenyan cookstove market

With the focus of scaling access to clean cooking technologies in Kenya, USAID held a competition wherein enterprises exhibit ways they plan to tackle distribution and financing bottlenecks in the Kenyan cookstove sector. Of the 43 organizations that applied, three winners were chosen. Read more here.

December 26, 2013

Marks & Spencers signs up to UNICEF clean cookstove carbon off set scheme

Marks & Spencers will become the first major company to sign up for a carbon offsetting scheme which aims to protect children’s health through funding of clean cookstoves in Bangladesh. The company, through this scheme aims to supply 40,000 fuel efficient low-pollution cookstoves in Bangladesh. Read more here.