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| Sep 2, 2026 | French Govt Invests €3.7M in Nūmi to Scale Up Cell-Cultured Breast Milk | 4 Mins Read Parisian startup Nūmi, which is developing cell-based breast milk, has secured €3.7M ($4.3M) in non-dilutive funding from the French government after being selected as a France 2030 i-Démo laureate.
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| Jul 27, 2026 | Teen Food Delivery at School Bypasses Nutrition Rules, Johns Hopkins Finds | By Joseph Blake
Published: Jul 27 2026, 2:50 PM EDT
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| Jul 15, 2026 | Measles Outbreaks Span 57 Countries as Vaccination Stalls Below Outbreak Threshold | By Philip Nickell
Published: Jul 15 2026, 2:59 PM EDT
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| Jun 3, 2026 | Nestlé Partners with Helaina to Develop Baby Formula with Recombinant Breast Milk Protein | 5 Mins Read Nestlé has teamed up with US startup Helaina to advance research on bioactive proteins and develop infant formula using the startup’s precision-fermented human lactoferrin, effera.
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| Feb 23, 2026 | LIXIL Reaches Major Milestone in Impact Strategy, Improving Sanitation and Hygiene for 103 Million People Globally | TOKYO, Feb. 23, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- LIXIL Corporation ("LIXIL", TSE Code: 5938), maker of pioneering water and housing products, today announced that it has achieved its ambitious goal of improving sanitation and hygiene for 103 ... |
| Jan 13, 2026 | 12 cost-effective ways to help the world’s poorest | With global development goals falling short and resources dwindling, nations and philanthropists must abandon the comprehensive Sustainable Development Goals and instead focus their limited funds on a dozen proven, highly cost-effective pol... |
| Dec 10, 2025 | Exclusive: Brazil Govt Pumps $6M in Biotech Startup to Close Gap Between Breast Milk & Baby Formula | 7 Mins Read Harmony Baby Nutrition has secured R$31.8M ($5.8M) from the Brazilian government to create breast-milk-inspired infant formulas through fermentation and set up a new R&D centre.
Biotech startup Harmony Baby Nutrition is aimi... |
| Oct 24, 2025 | Nigeria: The WhatsApp Chat That Could End a Health Crisis #CPHIA2025 | Durban, South Africa — Every day in Nigeria, hundreds of women and thousands of children lose their lives to preventable causes, yet in some of the country's most remote corners, a smartphone notification from HelpMum is now helping rewrite... |
| Sep 1, 2025 | Yali Bio’s Yeast-Derived Fat Matches Breast Milk Purity Ahead of FDA GRAS Filing | 4 Mins Read Californian firm Yali Bio has successfully produced a high-purity breast milk fat using precision fermentation, in a potential breakthrough for the baby formula market.
US food tech startup Yali Bio has hit a critical milestone ... |
| May 8, 2025 | Bill Gates pledges his remaining fortune to the Gates Foundation, which will close in 20 years | “I think 20 years is the right balance between giving as much as we can to make progress on these things and giving people a lot of notice that now this money will be gone,” Gates said. In a league of its own
The Gates Foundation has long b... |
| Feb 26, 2025 | New report finds female genital mutilation/ cutting in 94 countries | Efforts to end FGM/C remain hindered by reluctance from governments to act, particularly in countries not widely associated with this harmful practice.
Millions of individuals around the world live with the lifelong consequences of FGM/C. T... |
| Jan 14, 2025 | Portuguese Biotech Startup Bags $15M to Bring Infant Formula Nutritionally Closer to Breast Milk | 3 Mins Read Portuguese startup CarboCode, which is producing human-identical breast milk molecules via biocatalysis and fermentation, has raised $15M from investors.
Based in Cantanhede, Portugal, biotech player CarboCode has closed a €15M ... |
| Dec 2, 2024 | Как Руанда построила эффективную экономику на руинах геноцида | Руанда. Что приходит вам на ум, когда вы слышите название этой маленькой африканской страны? Наверняка геноцид 1994 года — одно из самых страшных злодеяний второй половины прошлого века.
Но для миллионов африканцев судьба Руанды вызывает ог... |
| Jul 13, 2024 | PUSH For Empowered Pregnancy Celebrates Passage of The Maternal and Child Health Stillbirth Prevention Act of 2024 | PUSH for Empowered Pregnancy, alongside fellow dedicated parent advocates, providers and nonprofits, is excited to celebrate President Joe Biden signing into law the bipartisan Maternal and Child Health Stillbirth Prevention Act of 2024.
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| May 26, 2024 | Commentary | Opinion: Deborah Carr: An aging global population and rising temperatures mean millions are at risk
By Deborah Carr, Enrica De Cian, Giacomo Falchetta and Ian Sue Wing | By Deborah Carr, Enrica De Cian, Giacomo Falchetta and Ian Sue Wing
A deadly heat wave gripped large regions of Asia for weeks in April and May 2024. As temperatures climbed past 110 degrees Fahrenheit in India on May 7, campaigning politic... |
| Feb 7, 2024 | Yali Bio Announces ‘World’s First’ Yeast-Derived Breast Milk Fat from Precision Fermentation | 4 Mins Read Californian startup Yali Bio has created what it claims is the world’s first breast milk fat made from yeast, using precision fermentation to allow infant formulas to more closely match the nutrition provided by human milk.
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| Jan 29, 2024 | Which country has the best health care? That’s the wrong question | I’ve spent my career studying how different health care systems work. People love to ask me which country has the best care — and are often disappointed when I don’t have an easy answer for them.
Every health care model involves people doin... |
| Aug 25, 2023 | JPMorgan: The world's food supplies face a bleak future. These are the 3 biggest threats, and the companies best-positioned to tackle food insecurity. | Markets JPMorgan: The world's food supplies face a bleak future. These are the 3 biggest threats, and the companies best-positioned to tackle food insecurity.
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2023-08-25T08:00:01Z
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| Aug 1, 2023 | Infographic: Breastfeeding benefits and challenges | World Breastfeeding Week is marked every year from August 1 to 7.
The United Nations-backed event highlights the importance of breastfeeding in tackling malnutrition and understanding inequality and the challenges mothers face around the wo... |
| May 17, 2023 | Is An End To Child Marriage Within Reach? | Progress has been made, but at the rate we're going, it will take another 300 years to end child marriage around the world. An urgent call to action. |
| Apr 27, 2023 | UNICEF: Digital divide hits women harder in poor countries | Nine out of 10 young women and teenage girls in the world’s poorest countries have no access to the internet, a UNICEF report published on Wednesday says.
The wide disparity in internet access poses a serious risk that women will be left be... |
| Apr 5, 2023 | Save the Children and THINKMD expand partnership to bring care to kids around the globe | The two organizations have so far partnered in Bangladesh, Indonesia and Kenya but will now expand
When it comes to the under-five child mortality rate globally, the good news is that it declined by 59% from 1990 to 2021. The bad news is th... |
| Mar 24, 2023 | Water For All Is Good For Business | Addressing water scarcity in the face of the climate crisis is one of the most pressing challenges of our time. Five key actions business leaders can take to accelerate progress on water security for all. |
| Feb 23, 2023 | Sleep Cycle Launches ‘Sleep Cycle Kids’ - an app that enables parents to track, analyze and improve their children’s sleep | Sleep Cycle Launches ‘Sleep Cycle Kids’ - an app that enables parents to track, analyze and improve their children’s sleep
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| Feb 8, 2023 | Surgery risks are disproportionately high for women in Africa – study | Photo of Medical Professionals Wearing Personal Protective Equipment
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Improving surgical care for women in low- and middle-income countries is a global health priority. It’s also critical for sustainable development because o... |
| Feb 2, 2023 | What this new YouTube report says about content creation in Africa | Video sharing platform, YouTube has become a big part of content creation. Even with the recent popularity of short-form video hosting service TikTok, the company records 14.3 billion views per month, making it the second most-visited websi... |
| Dec 29, 2022 | 6 things the US should learn about fighting disease from countries like Finland, Canada, and Brazil | Health 6 things the US should learn about fighting disease from countries like Finland, Canada, and Brazil
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2022-12-29T15:22:32Z
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| Dec 21, 2022 | Female genital mutilation rates peak in Kenya | Female genital mutilation rates peak in Kenya during school holidays. Photo: Pexels
Female genital mutilation is a practice deeply rooted in cultural traditions around the world.
Female genital mutilation was officially recognised as a form... |
| Oct 10, 2022 | The first malaria vaccine is here. Let’s meet the moment | One child dies every two minutes from malaria. Wider use of a new vaccine can make a dent in that devastating statistic.
The World Health Organization recommends the vaccine for broad use in sub-Saharan Africa and other areas with moderate ... |
| Aug 24, 2022 | To improve children’s health in low-income countries, put pediatric surgery on par with preventing malaria or HIV | The devastation caused by malnutrition, HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria in low income countries is well known in the U.S. and other high-income countries, due in part to masterful marketing that has elevated these diseases into the collectiv... |
| Jun 3, 2022 | Investing in women, children, and nutrition is not optional. The world’s future depends on it | The global health financing landscape has drastically changed since the end of 2019. The emergence of Covid-19 dramatically increased the need and urgency for investment in global health and additional funds have been needed to respond to t... |
| Jan 24, 2022 | 100 weeks into the pandemic: the importance of keeping schools open and investing in learning recovery programs | We are heading toward the 100th week of education disruption around the world. On average, each country has experienced 20 weeks of full school closures, plus another 20 weeks of partial closures. School children have lost an estimated 2 tr... |
| Dec 21, 2021 | India Lays Out Controversial Bill to Raise Women’s Marriage Age
India Lays Out Controversial Bill to Raise Women’s Marriage Age | (Bloomberg) -- Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government has presented new legislation in parliament, seeking to raise the legal age at which women can marry to 21 from 18, a move that rights activists say will do little to change long-held... |
| Dec 20, 2021 | Reversing the pandemic's education losses | When schools around the world moved online due to COVID-19, children in developing countries suffered the most. Even though digital learning does not produce the same outcomes as in-person education, technology used effectively can close ed... |
| Nov 3, 2021 | Meet O2 Cube, a Pittsburgh-built device designed to bring medical oxygen to rural health clinics without electricity | Even before the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated demand for medical oxygen, there was an apparent need for devices that could produce air that’s fit to breathe in areas outside the electrical grid.
For LeanMed, the idea for such a device began... |
| Oct 13, 2021 | Afghanistan’s girls lament continued closure of high schools | Kabul, Afghanistan – Kabul resident Rahela Nussrat, 17, is in her final year of high school, but she has not been able to attend classes. The reason: Afghanistan’s new rulers have decided to keep teenage girls off schools for now.
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| Oct 13, 2021 | Afghanistan’s girls lament continued closure of high schools | Kabul, Afghanistan – Kabul resident Rahela Nussrat, 17, is in her final year of high school, but she has not been able to attend classes. The reason: Afghanistan’s new rulers have decided to keep teenage girls out of school for now.
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| Oct 11, 2021 | Unleashing the Potential of Young Women and Girls Everywhere | Email
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| Sep 21, 2021 | United Nations: Challenges grow but not the budget to meet them | New York City, the United States – The United Nations’ budget is not growing but the challenges it faces are.
As it kicks off its annual high-level General Assembly session in New York City on Tuesday, the 193-member organisation will try t... |
| Sep 8, 2021 | Three steps to get every child reading | Too many children can't read by the age of ten. That was already a disaster in 2019. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, we faced a global learning crisis with 53% of children in low- and low-middle income countries in Learning Poverty - una... |
| Jul 25, 2021 | A turning point for children: creating an AIDS-free generation | Forty years after the first AIDS cases were reported, the harsh reality is that deep inequalities continue to exist in the global response to HIV and AIDS, with gaps in rights and services preventing real progress.
And while it is painful t... |
| Jun 16, 2021 | DoctorOnCall, Pfizer and UOB Malaysia form Malaysia's first tripartite collaboration to improve children's access to pneumococcal vaccine | KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, June 16, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- DoctorOnCall, Pfizer and UOB Malaysia today jointly launched "ASK4VACCINE", a financing programme that aims to improve children's access to pneumococcal vaccine in Malaysia. Th... |
| Mar 26, 2021 | Takeda Begins Regulatory Submissions for Dengue Vaccine Candidate in EU and Dengue-Endemic Countries | European Medicines Agency to Conduct First-Ever Parallel Assessment of a Medicinal Product, Takeda’s Dengue Vaccine Candidate (TAK-003), for use in the EU; Countries Outside of the EU through the EU-M4all (Previously Article 58) Procedure
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| Mar 25, 2021 | UNICEF Warns Of A ‘Catastophic Education Emergency’ Due To Prolonged COVID-19-Related School Closures | Schools for 168 million kids have been completely closed for almost a full year, according to UNICEF — with potentially devastating consequences. |
| Mar 22, 2021 | Infographic: How has the world changed since COVID-19? | One year ago, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a pandemic. The microscopic coronavirus has, in one way or another, changed the lives of all 7.8 billion people on Earth.
While the long-term impact of this global health c... |
| Feb 26, 2021 | Cultural Trends That Will Shape Consumer Behavior In 2021 And Beyond | Cultural trends for 2021 and beyond.getty |
| Jan 15, 2021 | EdTech Giant Brainly Continues to Grow With a Round of Series D Funding | Brainly is a Polish EdTech company providing homework assistance and remote distance learning.
The company has recently acquired $80M from multiple investors.
Possibly the closest to a silver lining that we can point to regarding the Coron... |
| Nov 17, 2020 | Digital Redlining: ISPs Widening The Digital Divide | As school districts are facing the new school year under conditions drastically changed by COVID-19, the digital divide is deepening education inequality in the US. |
| Nov 11, 2020 | Online Exam Software Alarms People as Law Student Receives 'Unable to Identify Your Face' Message | Urian B., Tech Times 11 November 2020, 01:11 pm
On November 10, a United States law student known as Areeb Khan attempted to login into the school's online portal to be able to take his own practice bar exam. Shockingly enough, he was met w... |
| May 12, 2020 | Want World Peace And Prosperity? Invest In Children | Supporting UNICEF is bigger than any political statement or strategy. It’s a way of recognizing that when children are able to survive and thrive, the benefits extend well beyond borders. |
| May 29, 2019 | First ladies can help lead the fight against HIV/AIDS | Complacency, the United Nations warned in its latest report on AIDS, constitutes a grave threat to decades of progress against HIV. The report, a self-proclaimed “wake-up call,” was directed at the entire global health community. But its me... |
| Sep 20, 2018 | Rethinking innovation in maternal and child health in Africa: five case studies | It was a typical yet astonishing scene in Wandi village in northeastern Nigeria: a traditional barber known as a wanzam ceremonially shaved Abubakar Nafisatu’s hair on his seventh day of life, as is the custom there. Then the barber did som... |
| Feb 6, 2018 | Mozambique launches first Reporting Portal for child sexual abuse material online | Mozambique takes a vital step towards removing online child sexual abuse from the internet by launching a public reporting system this Safer Internet Day.
On Safer Internet Day, Mozambique’s government has announced its new system for repor... |
| Feb 6, 2018 | Mozambique launches first Reporting Portal for child sexual abuse material online | Mozambique launches first Reporting Portal for child sexual abuse material online
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Mozambique takes a vital step towards removing online child sexual abuse from the internet by launching a public reporting system this Safer Intern... |
| Infographic: Which countries have the lowest breastfeeding rates? | World Breastfeeding Week is celebrated from August 1 to 7 every year. Coordinated by the World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action (WABA), it highlights the importance of breastfeeding in tackling malnutrition, understanding inequality and th... |
| Here’s what Pfizer and Moderna say is next for their Covid vaccines | Pfizer and Moderna say their work on their blockbuster Covid vaccines is far from over, even now that the U.S. has ended the public health emergency.
The two drugmakers are ushering in a new era for their shots that will elevate the role th... |
| ‘Starting over’: FGM clinic gives hope to traumatised Egyptians | Cairo, Egypt – Maryam, 28, an Egyptian master’s student of anthropology, recalls with great vividness the day she underwent circumcision.
She was 11 years old and her mother and aunt brought a “da’ya”, or traditional midwife, to their home ... |
| Urgent action is needed to improve Africa’s food systems | From 5-9 September, African and global business leaders will meet in Kigali, Rwanda, for the Africa Green Revolution Forum (AGRF), the continent’s most influential gathering around Africa’s largest economic sector – agriculture and food sys... |
| 2024′s wave of elections predicted to derail food security progress | The upcoming slew of global elections derail efforts to secure long-term food supplies, the International Fund for Agricultural Development said Monday.
President Alvaro Lario told CNBC that political polarization is likely to play a major ... |