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The Accidental Social Enterprise: VSee’s unexpected foray into BoP health care
Milton Chen founded VSee to provide a fully encrypted, low bandwidth alternative to Skype. But his video conferencing and screen share application was soon adopted by BoP health care providers, which now represent a growing portion of the company’s business. In this post, Chen describes how VSee has catered to this unexpected market through a suite of innovative telemedicine tools.
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- Health Care, Technology
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How one social enterprise is leading the fight against malaria
Living Goods, a social enterprise based in San Francisco, has built a network of door-to-door salespeople in Uganda.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- public health
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Toxic waste sites detrimental to health in India: research
Toxic waste sites in India with elevated levels of lead and chromium are causing disease, disability and even death, leading to loss of healthy years of life among people, according to a new research.
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- Health Care
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- public health, waste
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Viva la Revolucion?: What can other countries learn from Cuba’s health care model?
There are no shortage of reasons to be critical of communism, or of the Cuban government. And free enterprise brings innovative solutions to poverty and health care delivery that top-down systems can’t match. But Cuba’s health care system has managed to deliver impressive results with very limited resources. In this Q&A and presentation, Dr. Peter Bourne discusses the Cuban model, and what developing (and developed) countries could learn from it.
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- Health Care
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- public health
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How solar panels are leading the fight against malaria
Kenyan island aims to become free of the disease thanks to solar-powered, insecticide-free mosquito traps
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- Energy, Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- public health, solar
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Doctors on Wheels: Projeto CIES brings mobile clinics to Brazil
Brazil has a strong public health care system, but it’s plagued by overcrowding and out-dated equipment. And though it provides virtually universal access to primary care, it has lagged at delivering specialized care. Projeto CIES was founded to deliver prompt, privately-run specialty care in collaboration with the public sector, through mobile clinics. CHMI’s Rose Reis talks with Dr. Roberto Kikawa, the physician who started the initiative.
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- Health Care
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- public health
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We’re Not Prepared For China’s Deadly Bird Flu
In Asia, more than 120 people have been sickened, and 23 are dead, from a potent strain of bird flu that has the frightening markings of a potential pandemic strain.
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- Health Care
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- Asia Pacific
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- public health
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6 Canadian game-changing ideas for global health care
A Ziploc bag filled with $5 worth of tools to save newborn babies’ lives in third world countries.
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- Health Care
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- public health