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  1. Institute of Palliative Medicine: Easing the end of life

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    Published by: Swiss Re Foundation Content Type: Project 

    Background Palliative medicine focuses on relieving and preventing suffering rather than curing underlying disease or illness. ...

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  2. The Swiss Red Cross (SRC): Bracing for nature's worst

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    Published by: Swiss Re Foundation Content Type: Project 

    The Challenge The Central America and Caribbean region is one of the most disaster-prone in the world. In addition to natural ...

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  3. The International Committee of the Red Cross: Clean water in Somalia

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    Published by: Swiss Re Foundation Content Type: Project 

    The Challenge Many people in Somalia have only precarious access to basic services such as water and sanitation. Armed conflict ...

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  4. Oxfam: Protection from drought

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    Published by: Swiss Re Foundation Content Type: Project 

    Climate-related shocks are a threat to the food security of the 1.3 billion people who live on less than a dollar a day and ...

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  5. International Committee of the Red Cross: The future of risk

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    Published by: Swiss Re Foundation Content Type: Project 

    In building up its Humanitarian Leadership and Management School (HLMS), the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) ...

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  6. Harvard School of Public Health: Trends in heart health

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    Published by: Swiss Re Foundation Content Type: Project 

    Background With China’s rapid urbanisation and changes in dietary and lifestyle choices, cardiovascular and other chronic ...

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  7. Global Earthquake Model Foundation: Understanding earthquakes

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    Published by: Swiss Re Foundation Content Type: Project 

    From 1970 to 2012, the toll of earthquakes in South America was 77 000 lives, 15 million people affected and economic losses of ...

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  8. The American Red Cross (ARC): Recovering from Hurricane Sandy

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    Hurricane Sandy hit the Caribbean, Jamaica and the East Coast of the United States in October 2012. The American Red Cross was ...

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  9. Watershed Organisation Trust: Building resilience to climate change

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    Published by: Swiss Re Foundation Content Type: Project 

    Background In ecologically fragile and rain-fed regions of India, climate variability is adversely affecting agriculture, ...

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