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In Telemedicine, Often Old Habits Prove Bigger Challenge Than Technology Hurdles
In the rural town of Juvvalapalem, most residents seek the local Rural Medical Practitioners (also known as quacks) when they need medical treatment. This is just one of the challenges we’re dealing with at GloCare, an initiative to provide market-driven quality healthcare solutions to underserved populations through telemedicine.
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- Health Care, Technology, Telecommunications
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Unleashing Innovation: The Story Behind the Low-Cost Incubator ‘Embrace’
As some of the world’s leading social innovators come together this week at the Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship, Link TV’s ViewChange project is looking at some of the most exciting social innovations taking place around the world. Guest Writer Linus Liang, COO of Embrace, shares the story on the low-cost incubator.
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- Health Care, Social Enterprise, Technology
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How ‘Toil-o-preneurs’ Are Scaling Sanitation Solutions
Nearly 50 percent of India’s urban poor do not have access to clean toilets. With increasing migration to cities like Mumbai and Delhi, the pressure on public sanitation facilities has been immense. Shramik Sanitation Systems (3S), one of the early social enterprises that looked at sanitation in a holistic manner, provides community toilets in urban environments of India.
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- Health Care
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Bottom Line and Belt Line: Eating Healthy to Solve Malnutrition
Over 1 billion people in the world lack access to adequate food and nutrition while another 1 billion face health risks associated with obesity and overeating. These seemingly bifurcated problems are actually inter-related and reflect the global food imbalance. TFT’s solution aims to addresses these issues by encouraging behavioral changes related to portion size and prompts students, restaurant customers and company employees to think about the global hunger epidemic
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- Health Care, Social Enterprise
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- nutrition
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Where Free, Profitable, Impact and Scale Intersect: Insights From the Story of Aravind
Aravind Eye Care is a self-sustaining and profitable organization that treats most of its patients for free or at a deeply subsidized rate. A new book, "Infinite Vision," provides insights into the man who put Aravind into motion, and chronicles the strategic decisions, growing pains, innovations and efficiencies behind this BoP success story.
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- Health Care, Social Enterprise
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Weekly Roundup – 11-13-11: Technology’s Equalizing Impact
The need for inclusive health programs has been an active part of the development conversation for years. Daniella Ballou-Aares, the founder of the Global Health Practice group at the strategic consulting firm Dalberg points out, the means to do so on a large-scale has been elusive. However, technology has become the great equalizer.
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- Health Care, Social Enterprise, Technology
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Housing Series: Sustainable Communities Generating Sustainable Habitats
We began Echale a Tu Casa over 25 years ago as a nonprofit to help low-income Mexican families improve home safety, health and hygiene conditions. Realizing that philanthropy would not permit us to have much of an impact on these living conditions, we created a social enterprise built on an integrated system of savings, credit and subsidies.
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- Environment, Health Care, WASH
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NextThought Monday: When Mass Marketing Meets Global Health, the Case of Lifebuoy Soap
While the UN continues to fall well short of its Millennium Development Goals and aid agencies pour ever-more money into hygiene aid programs, Lifebuoy is taking a very different approach. The Unilever brand recently launched an effort to globalize its hand washing campaign, marketing its way towards the one billion benchmark.
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- Health Care
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