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Girl Power: SHOFCO’s tuition-free schools in Kenya linking communities to health services
Shining Hope for Communities, which is creating girls’ schools in Kenyan slums and linking community services to them, has been recognized for making health care more accessible.
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- Education, Health Care
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The ‘Cursed’ Women Living in Shame in Uganda
Many people in rural areas believe in witchcraft over medical science says Dr Florence Nalubega, a gynaecologist at Kitovu Hospital in Masaka.
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- Education, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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German Company Wins Inaugural EU Prize For Innovative Vaccine Technology
The European Commission offered the prize, worth EUR2 million, to encourage inventors to overcome one of the biggest barriers to using vaccines in developing countries: the need to keep them stable at any ambient temperature.
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- Education, Health Care
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- Europe & Eurasia
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Human-Centered Design – Common Aspirations, Uncommon Action: Second iteration of the Acumen/IDEO.org course is after social change doers
Acumen and IDEO.org are partnering for a second time to offer Human-Centered Design for Social Innovation. The seven-week course is based on the fundamental belief that gaining a deep understanding of the needs, hopes, and aspirations of potential customers and the lives they live yields incredible inspiration for new solutions. Human-centered designers learn by doing and evolve their solutions based on real-time feedback.
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- Education
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- product design
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Coca-Cola invests in ‘Engine’ initiative to help young women in Nigeria
The Coca-Cola Company and the UK Department for International Development (DFID) have joined forces to bolster the educational and economic opportunities of more than 10,000 marginalised girls and young women in Nigeria.
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- Education
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10,000 Women’s Perspectives on Non-Communicable Diseases – A New Global Survey
Clinton Global Initiative Commitment to Action Explores Impact of NCDs on Women
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- Education, Health Care
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- governance, research
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Mobile Movies Is A Novel Way Of Collecting Data In Off-The-Grid Areas
In the late 1960s, the British Ministry of Technology turned buses into mobile cinemas that toured the country and screened films promoting modern production techniques. Half a century later, a Singapore-based startup is reviving the concept to reach rural communities throughout Southeast Asia.
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- Education, Health Care
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- Asia Pacific
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Fixing Health Care in India: Roundtable participants looking at incentives, disincentives embedded in the system
A small group of bureaucrats, practitioners, entrepreneurs and academics have identified priorities in Indian health care and hope to design real-time priorities to address them.
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- Education, Environment, Health Care
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- public health