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Second study to ascertain relationship between biomass fuel usage and anaemia and stunting

A new study digs back into data from the 2006-2007 Swaziland Demographic and Health Survey, to look at health statistics of 1150 children aged 6-36 months to ascertain if there is indeed a relationship between anaemia & stunting, and usage of biomass fuels. While other factors resulted in stunting, a […]

September 23, 2013

US: University of Washington students acquire grant to make cleaner cookstoves

University of Washington engineers recently acquired a grant of US$900,000 from the US Department of Energy to design a cookstove that addresses the challenge of inefficient cookstoves, a problem that kills an estimated 3.5 million people annually (according to The Lancet GBD study). About 500 million people, 42% of the […]

September 23, 2013

And now, a solar stove to cook during night-time, using molten salt

One major factor contributing to solar cookers’ failure to go mainstream is the fact that night-time cooking, in the absence of the sun is impossible. A new stove innovation which has two arrangements – Grill and Over, is a multi-purpose hybrid solar cooker that cooks using direct solar heating during […]

September 23, 2013

Tanzania set to train 10,000 new health workers each year

Tanzania has an acute medical personnel shortage. To tackle this problem, the country is launching a plan to train new healthcare workers each year. Read more here.

September 23, 2013

Steady decrease in maternal mortality in Indian women

India has been able to bring about a steady reduction in its maternal mortality. From 301 deaths per 100,000 live births between 2001 and 2003, to 212 deaths per 100,000 live births between 2007 and 2009. Read more here.

September 23, 2013

Universal healthcare can be acquired by developing countries

According to a new report by the AfDB (African Development Bank), developing countries in the Middle East, Asia and Africa are rapidly progressing on their way to achieving universal healthcare, with standards quickly matching up to European healthcare. This progress has been achieved by countries like Rwanda, Thailand, Ghana and […]

September 23, 2013

“China-style Obamacare”, how China wants to close the urban-rural gap of modern healthcare availability

In China, a new healthcare revolution is changing the way people save and get themselves treated during healthcare emergencies. The government’s new health insurance plan that covers almost half the patient’s healthcare costs is encouraging people to change how they save. According to a new study, 70% of rural patients […]

September 23, 2013

Decreasing deaths of pre-term babies

According to this article, India has the largest number of pre-term baby deaths in the world. When babies are born, temperatures around them need to be regulated. With pre-term babies, this is difficult as they have little body fat. As a result, a number of pre-term babies in the developing […]

September 23, 2013

Smart cards to insure the poor: An innovation that uses M-PESA

According to Christina Synowiec of the Centre for Health Market Innovations, selling the concept of making payment for health problems before they happen is a hard sell in developing countries, and lead to disastrous financial consequences for the poor. Two entrepreneurs from Kenya are tackling this problem in a very […]