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More Kenyans To Benefit From New Private Sector Healthcare Initiative
Excelsior Group’s Foundation and the Kenya Association of Private Hospitals (KAPH) have reached an agreement to improve healthcare accessibility for 30 percent of Kenya’s population. Private sector networks account for more than 50 percent of Kenya’s healthcare providers serving the needs of Kenyans living on lower incomes.
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- Education, Environment, Health Care
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How Millennium Challenge Corp. Partnership Will Help PEPFAR ‘go local’ in South Africa
The U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief and the U.S. Agency for International Development work together to help strengthen public health systems in South Africa by funding ARV distribution and equipment.
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- Environment, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- governance, supply chains
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D-Lab Scale-Ups Fellowship Applications Open from MIT
Applications due April 9 for a 12-month program that provides $20,000 to develop sustainable social ventures
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- Education, Environment
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Health Centers Paying Off in Kenyan Slums: Access Afya’s award-winning model is based on empowering clients
Access Afya runs two micro-clinics in Nairobi slums with plans to expand to four sites by the end of 2014. Monthly revenue increased more than 150 percent in 12 months and both sites are covering between 70-80 percent of their operating costs in 2014. Access Afya’s goal is to have all four sites, current and planned, self-sustaining by the end of the year.
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- Environment, Health Care
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‘Best Buys’ Depend on Who Holds the Wallet: Global health investors have different priorities, but efficiency seems to resonate with all
Health and development experts sat down in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday to discuss “best buys” in global health in 2014. They agreed that the focus should be on specific efficiencies of existing systems, instead of building new systems.
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- Environment, Health Care
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Financing Sustainable Fisheries With Impact Investments
What’s good for the fish is good for the fishing communities — and for impact investors. That’s the thesis of three new vehicles for investing in sustainable fisheries that will be tested in the Philippines, Chile, and Brazil over the next two years and then offered to investors more broadly.
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- Environment, Impact Assessment
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- impact investing
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Bonds Tied to Green Investments Are Booming
Christopher Flensborg of SEB, a Swedish bank, calls it another tipping-point for “green bonds”, and he should know: he invented them.
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- Environment
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Empowering People With Cooking Stoves
Imagine spending 30 percent of your income on cooking fuel, inhaling the equivalent of 20 cigarettes daily while preparing meals for your family, and having to send your daughter to collect fuel for hours every day. What sounds like a far-fetched scenario is the reality of millions of people around the world in countries like Nepal, Darfur and Haiti.
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- Energy, Environment, Health Care, Technology