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Blog | Grand Challenges Canada | Grands Défis Canada | Bold Ideas for Humanity Over five billion cell phones are now scattered across the globe. Integral to our daily lives, cell phones are used to make calls, to send messages, even to access the internet – but could they be used to diagnose potentially life-threatening conditions in pregnant women?

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Congratulations to @"The Awakening" A Society for Social & Cultural Development for their project being awarded funding under the Southern Vaccine Advocacy Challenge. www.srcglobal.org/svac

In the Swat District, Pakistan this organization is establishing village health committees, school drama clubs and radio programs in addition to using passages from the Holy Quran to promote child vaccination.

"Canadá financiará programa salvadoreño para luchar contra el cáncer cervical" http://t.co/KsS4RIhG

Canadá financiará programa salvadoreño para luchar contra el cáncer cervical | Salud | El-Nacional.c Cada uno de los proyectos del llamado Southern Vaccine Advocacy Challenge (SVAC) recibirá de CSR 10.000 dólares estadounidenses

Congratulations to ASAPRECAN for their project being awarded funding under the Southern Vaccine Advocacy Challenge. www.srcglobal.org/svac

They are working to prevent cervical cancer, by mobilizing female parliamentarians and civil society members to lobby the national government to include the HPV vaccine in the National Plan on Immunization.

Congratulations to Desmond Tutu HIV Foundation and the Future Fighters for their project being awarded funding under the Southern Vaccine Advocacy Challenge. www.srcglobal.org/svac

They are using a peer-to-peer education model and 30 energetic, committed youths to educate students on, and build demand for, current vaccines, and offer role models for fighting HIV/AIDS stigma to prepare the way for the potential creation of an HIV vaccine.