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NexThought Monday: Impact Investing ‘Skeptics Have Been Defeated’ – Our Q&A With LeapFrog CEO
LeapFrog Investments' portfolio of companies make insurance and financial services their business, and their clientele are those who earn $10 or less a day. With a recent investment from development organization OPIC, LeapFrog has raised more than $1 billion. In an interview with NextBillion, CEO Andrew Kuper details LeapFrog's trajectory, the shakiness of emerging markets, and the challenges of reaching consumers for whom insurance can provide both a safety net and an economic springboard.
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- Health Care, Impact Assessment, Investing
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Innovative Partnerships Models to Advance Nutrition and Security
The food system is an essential part our lives in many respects. It is a very complex, integrated network that comprises not only supply chains of big companies, but also the institutions, the businesses and the people involved in the production, consumption, and distribution of the food we need to live healthy and productive lives. It also provides an income source for billions of people, many of whom are poor, and it is one of the largest users of the world's natural resources. The food system is essential to not only maintain healthy lives, but also for global health security.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- nutrition
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An Innovative Suitcase Lab Used to Fight Ebola Could Help Us Untangle the Zika Epidemic
The World Health Organization has declared Zika a global health emergency, because it believes the risks are high enough for a global response. And yet, we understand little about the virus and its effects on people. Zika’s links to neurological conditions, such as microcephaly—abnormal brain development in newborns—remain unproven.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Weekly Roundup: Grading Super Bowl Ads, Teaching Social Entrepreneurship, Fact-Checking Global Health
Three commercials at this Sunday's Super Bowl 50 come from financial services providers focused on customers who can’t afford a ticket to the game. We grade the three ads in terms of how effectively they present the inclusive elements of these companies' brands, discuss a new school for social entrepreneurs, and explore a new fact-checking initiative for global health in this roundup.
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- Education, Health Care
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Cancer Day: Kenyans Go to India for Treatment
In Kenya, cases of cervical and breast cancer, are the common forms of cancer among women and are on the rise. But other forms of cancer like liver and the pancreatic cancer have also become common.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Bharat Biotech Says Working on Two Possible Zika Vaccines
Indian biotechnology company Bharat Biotech said on Wednesday it was working on two possible vaccines to fight the Zika virus, which has been linked to birth defects in thousands of babies in Brazil.
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- Health Care
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The country that supplies eyes
To restore sight to damaged eyes, doctors often need to transplant the cornea – the transparent covering of the iris and the pupil – from a donor's dead body. There is a worldwide shortage, but one country, Sri Lanka, is doing its best to satisfy demand, without seeking any reward – at least in this life.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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How to Make New TB Technology More Accessible to the Private Health Sector
Dr. Madhukar Pai, citing research about tuberculosis testing that he recently helped publish in The Lancet Global Health, lays out some of the strategies that might lead to more consistent access and pricing among private TB health care providers worldwide.
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- Health Care
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