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The ‘Treacherous’ Transition from a Great Tech Idea to Sustainable Business
Hyrax Biosciences recently developed Exatype, a software solution that enables health care workers to quickly and affordably determine HIV positive patients’ responsiveness to treatment. In this Q&A, Dr. Kirsten Miller-Duys, business development lead, discusses Exatype’s implications for global health, plans to turn it into a sustainable business, and Africa's emerging tech sector.
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- Health Care, Social Enterprise
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Weekly Roundup: Dubious Controversy, Outrageous Pricing and Angels in South Africa
Among the week's highlights (and lowlights): Grameen Foundation and Muhammad Yunus make an unwelcome entrance into U.S. presidential politics, Mylan Pharmaceuticals defends itself from price-gouging accusations, and a business angel network launches in South Africa.
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- Education, Health Care, Investing, Social Enterprise
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Creating ‘Solavores’ By Thinking Inside the Box
Solavore, launched last year, sells solar ovens in the developed world and uses the profits to subsidize clean-cooking technology for the 2.7 billion people in the developing world for whom wood fire is the only cooking option, with the inevitable result: lung damage.
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- Energy, Health Care, Social Enterprise
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- climate health, solar
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Weekly Roundup: The Death of a Salesman, a Megaphone for Mom, and a Target on BlackRock
Divestment activists in the gay community turn their sights on BlackRock, a tragic suicide reveals trouble in India's health care industry, and a new study shows the value of constructive nagging in this week's Roundup.
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- Health Care, Investing, Social Enterprise
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- impact investing
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A Roadmap that Bypasses the Public Health Care System
A year ago, uber Diagnostics commercially launched Cardiotrack, a handheld ECG monitor. Since then, the company has learned some hard lessons about inefficiencies in India's public health sector. In response, it started a program to provide ambulances with health diagnostics devices, plus a separate home health care service designed to generate jobs.
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- Health Care, Social Enterprise
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Weekly Roundup: Uruguay smokes ‘Big Tobacco’, Safaricom ups the ante, critic pens a (RED) herring
Uruguay wins a major legal battle against a huge tobacco company, Safaricom ups the ante in its battle with banks in Kenya, and our editors take issue with a provocative critique of a popular "social venture" in this Roundup of the week's social business developments.
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- Health Care, Investing, Social Enterprise, Technology
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Equipping a New Era of Global Development
Sometimes it can feel like NGOs, social businesses and big development aid institutions are in competition with one another to improve the world. But in an increasingly complex world, we should view violent extremist organizations, such as ISIS, as development competitors. This perspective was a running theme – but one of several facing social entrepreneurs and global development leaders at all levels – discussed at Devex World.
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- Health Care, Impact Assessment
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Weekly Roundup: How Brexit Could Impact Emerging Markets + Other Non-Brexit News
We could not call this a Weekly Roundup without addressing Britain’s decision to leave the European Union (spoiler alert: like most economists, we're struggling to see any upside.) But for those readers who've had their fill of Brexit news, we have plenty more developments to share, including Capria Accelerator's new $100 million fund, Waste Ventures' tie up with Coke, and the dark side to alternative credit scoring.
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- Health Care, Investing, Social Enterprise
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