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Three Recommendations to Foster Development in Africa’s Health Markets
As the CEO of a company that markets portable, power-free medical instrument sterilizers to hospitals and health centers in East Africa, Dr. Bernstein has seen first hand the degree to which people are ready to pay for safe and effective medical care. But at the same time there is a conscious effort to avoid the creation of a completely segmented health system where the quality of care is much higher for those who can afford it from the private sector, and huge portions of the population are unable to participate in the market.
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- Environment, Health Care
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Investing in Africa: the imperative to invest sustainably
There is no one way to do business in Africa. But through exploring both the opportunities and the challenges experienced by companies operating successfully in Africa, a number of key lessons can be unearthed.
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- Environment, Impact Assessment
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Lease-to-Own Energy: Part 3 of our Digital Finance Plus series explores how mobile money is enabling affordable off-grid solar energy solutions
With 1.3 billion living without electricity worldwide, the need for off-grid energy solutions is massive. In Part 3 of our Digital Finance Plus series, Peter Glenn of Fenix International describes how the company uses mobile finance to provide an innovative payment plan that helps make solar energy affordable to people in emerging markets.
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- Energy, Environment
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eKutir’s VeggieLite gains Gates Foundation grant
eKutir’s new project VeggieLite is a recipient of Grand Challenges India 2014, supported by the Gates Foundation, USAID and DBT, the Indian government’s anti-poverty scheme.
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- Agriculture, Environment, Health Care
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Immunization Support Expiring for Some: GAVI, partners aim to help countries achieve successful ‘graduation’
The GAVI Alliance has helped some of the world’s poorest countries immunize their children. Soon, several of these countries are scheduled to "graduate" from this support. These countries will face a variety of challenges, but they’re already getting help planning for the transition.
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- Environment, Health Care
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- governance, infrastructure, vaccines
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Predicting Disease Outbreaks in a Changing Climate in Africa
The IPCC report focuses on climate change impacts, adaptation and vulnerability.
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- Environment, Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Governments need to ‘join up and scale up’ on health
World Health Day is a chance to reflect on the progress we’ve made since the occasion was first marked in 1950. But it’s also a moment to reflect on the huge challenges that remain. One child dying from preventable causes is one too many — but in reality, 6.6 million die in this way each year.
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- Environment, Health Care
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- governance, scale
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Health Workers Go the Last Mile: Organization is training staff to deliver care in the world’s most remote regions
Last Mile Health’s model recruits, trains, equips, manages and incentivizes frontline health workers, who deliver care door-to-door in remote villages and tackle 75 percent of the burden of the disease in these villages.
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- Education, Environment, Health Care
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- scale, skill development
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