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Marico Foundation, Villgro invest in medical devices firm Yostra Labs
Bengaluru-based medical technology startup Yostra Labs Pvt Ltd has raised an undisclosed amount of funding from Marico Innovation Foundation (MIF) and social enterprise incubator Villgro, the company said in a statement on Wednesday.
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Private equity firm sees healthcare opportunity in Liberia
Last month the London-based private equity firm, TLG Capital, announced that it had invested an undisclosed amount in Snapper Hill Clinic, a Liberian healthcare provider which runs the largest private out-patient facility in the country’s capital Monrovia. The investment will be used to launch two additional clinics in the city and increase capacity to serve over 50,000 patients a year – from 15,000 currently.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Global Health Interventions Need to Hit the Ground Running. Here’s Some Pre-Race Help.
A recent white paper describes a “six-month window” in which global health interventions need to take shape, or else most of them are doomed. To help get things right from the start, and ultimately achieve scale, USAID’s Center for Accelerating Innovation and Impact recently published “Ready, Set, Launch: A Country-Level Launch Planning Guide for Global Health Innovations.”
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Microsoft and partners launch Intelligent Network for Eyecare in India
Microsoft India and the L V Prasad Eye Institute recently launched the Microsoft Intelligent Network for Eyecare (MINE), a global consortium of commercial, research and academic institutions who have joined hands to apply artificial intelligence to deliver eye care services and help eradicate preventive blindness.
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New Global Coalition Aims to Stop Future Epidemics with New Vaccines
On January 19, a new coalition aiming to drive vaccine innovation will launch at the World Economic Forum in Davos Switzerland. Dubbed the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI), the new effort aims to fight the global problem of infectious diseases.
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OxyContin’s global drive: ‘We’re only just getting started’
OxyContin is a dying business in America. So the company’s owners, the Sackler family, adopted a new strategy: Put the painkiller that set off the U.S. opioid crisis into medicine cabinets around the world.
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A new approach for controlling intestinal worm infections could help millions of the world’s most vulnerable people
Expanding the control strategy for intestinal worms to treating adults as well as children could improve the health of millions of people worldwide who are infected or reinfected by these parasites every year.
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Announcing NextBillion’s Most Influential Posts of 2016
Congratulations to the three winners of NextBillion’s “Most Influential Post of 2016” contest. Each winner brought a unique mixture of topicality, engaging writing and thought-provoking analysis to their posts, which tackled some of the most important issues facing the social business world in the past year.
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- Health Care, Social Enterprise
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