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Fundamentally, Basic Emergency Obstetric and Newborn Care (or BEmONC) is a package of staff, knowledge, and resources offered at healthcare facilities that make it possible to treat some of the most typical complications around birth.
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Several such software packages exist, and they are easy and cheap to translate into other languages.
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it also allows many students to share the tablet over the day,
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The additional R&D investment — shown in Figure 7.9 against historical levels — should be directed in four ways to help the Global South. First, money would need to go to internationally aligned research centers on innovation, technical, and policy support to improve food security, poverty, and ecosystem services globally — effectively, the
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Antenatal corticosteroids for preterm labor
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means an 11% boost to their economies each year.
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They set out targets that almost everyone in the world would agree are priorities: To reduce poverty and hunger,
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The full package, which` includes a 30% increase in private sector investments in developing countries, would cost $74 billion over the 35-year period. That is equivalent to an annual increase of $5.5 billion. But this investment would generate $2,450 billion in benefits — a spectacular $33 return for each dollar invested. Per year, it would be
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For one hour a day, the students sit down, each with their tablet. The tablet contains software in the native language, and it can quickly assess the level of the student and start teaching right at that level.