A cooperative team from Yale, Stanford and Innovations Poverty Action has conducted a control trial over 350,000 individuals in Bangladesh and identified four strategies that would effectively change norms to encourage mask wearing. The NORM project stands for no-cost, offering information, reinforcement, and modelling. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) donated $3 million to […]
The World Bank has signed a financial agreement of U$ 221.5 million to the Government of Vietnam to tackle the local recovery. The budget will give a concession of 30 years, gracing the period of 5 years. The action aims to foster an inclusive economic recovery by easing the tax burden on businesses, improving access
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The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is assisting the Government of Bangladesh to manage the damages of the COVID-19 pandemic. With a 500 million budget to fund the “COVID-19 Active Response and Expenditure Support Program’’, the partnership has been active since the beginning of the pandemic promoting socio-economic recovery and strengthening the national health system. The
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Mercy in Action is a Non- Governmental Organization in the Philippines, established in 1991 to support and provide proper healthcare for pregnant women, supporting and saving the lives of newborn babies and children. The organization gives free services to poor families in the country and conducts outreach programs to save and heal many patients in
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Volunteers Provide Food To COVID-19 Patients Under Quarantine in Indonesia In July 2021, another devastating surge of COVID-19 swept across Indonesia. Jakarta, the capital city of Indonesia and home to about 10 million people (30 million if adjacent towns are included) became the epicenter of the outbreak. The new wave has pushed the hospitals to
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Raising Awareness About Challenges Faced by the LGBTI Community in Indonesia In Indonesia, the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) community live with daily life obstacles. In the pandemic, the community faces new challenges including job loss, increasing violence and discrimination, and inadequate social support. The Crisis Response Mechanism (CRM) Consortium, consisting of UNAIDS
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