Rough Riders Africa’s health care crises is due, in part, to inadequate transport systems. But less so now. more here: http://www.skollfoundation.org/entrepreneur/andrea-and-barry-coleman/ and here: http://www.riders.org/
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On the Road to Better Health Care Using discarded shipping containers, North Star Alliance provides health care services to Africa’s mobile workforce. more here: http://business.un.org/en/documents/6482
Posted in Botswana, D.R.C., Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, public health, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, The Gambia, Uganda, waste management, Zambia, Zimbabwe
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One to Grow On Two organizations join forces to wipe out malaria one person, one dollar at a time. more here: http://www.malarianomore.org/
Tagged with: artemisinin, mosquito nets, Novartis, sub-Saharan Africa
Posted in Cameroon, public health, Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia
Posted in Cameroon, public health, Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia
Your Daily Egg 107
This Way to a Healthier Future for All PATH’s mission is to use innovation to give everyone, everywhere a chance at at healthy life always. more here: path.org
Tagged with: emerging diseases, epidemic diseases, immunization, maternal and child health, vaccines
Posted in Cambodia, China, designers/engineers, Ethiopia, Ferney, food security, India, Kenya, medical, Nicaragua, nutrition, public health, sanitation, Seattle, South Africa, Tanzania, Ukraine, Vietnam, Washington, D.C., Zambia
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Some Things Don’t Go Better with Coke Such is the nature of innovation. Despite a slew of design awards attesting to the sheer brilliance of the idea, Colalife’s Kit Yamayo Anti-diarrhoea kit wasn’t getting to the rural villages it was…
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Freewheelin’ Free Wheelchair Mission is the the response a biomedical engineer from California had to watching a woman in Morocco drag herself across the road one day. To date, they have given out over 400,000 wheelchairs to people in 77…
Tagged with: design, disabilities, mission, missionaries, mobility, wheelchairs
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All Humans Must Wash Hands Before Returning to Life Handwashing is one of the basic ways to reduce deaths from preventable diseases such as diarrhea and respiratory infections. The Tippy Tap makes handwashing a do-it-yourself possibility in areas lacking the…
Tagged with: design, diarrhea, handwashing, preventable diseases, respiratory infections, sanitation, tippy tap
Posted in Dominican Republic, Ecuador, France, Gadchiroli, Germany, Guatemala, Haiti, Laos, Lonland, Nigeria, NYC, Pennsylvania, public health, South Sudan, The Gambia, training, Uganda, Uttar-Pradesh, Zambia, Zimbabwe
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Going Where No Ambulance Has Gone Before It’s as simple as a hitch for a bike and it saves lives. more here: http://www.worldwidecyclingatlas.com/journal/zambulance-building-bicycle-ambulances-for-africa/
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The Gift That Keeps on…Giving Celebrity Chef and Heifer International supporter Alton Brown explains how Heifer works. Since 1944 Heifer International has been providing livestock and training to families in impoverished areas around the world. Their model stipulates that recipients…
Tagged with: bees, cows, goats, Heifer International, livestock, Poverty, sustainable approach, systems, training, water buffalo
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Like a Packet of Sugar Only Much “Sweeter” Child malnutrition is a global problem. Pediatrician, researcher, and academic, Dr. Stanley Zlotkin developed an easy-to-use way to fortify any food moms make for their kids. more here: http://www.sghi.org/about_sprinkles/index.html
Tagged with: children, iron, micronutrients, minerals, nutrition, refugees, vitamins
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