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A Closer Look at The World’s Largest Unaddressed Disability: Leveraging Inclusive Business to Eradicate Poor Vision
Uncorrected poor vision affects some 2.5 billion people, costing the global economy $227 billion a year in lost productivity. Yet though 90% of these people live in developing countries, the problem ranks low on the global development agenda – even though it can often be fixed by a simple pair of glasses. Jayanth Bhuvaraghan at Essilor explores the issue, and discusses an innovative solution: the Eye Mitra program, which trains youth in emerging countries to become micro-entrepreneurs, providing primary vision care and selling low-cost eyeglasses in their communities.
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- Entrepreneurship, Health Care
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Award-Winning Startup Targets Affordable Medicine for Every African
MPharma is one of five social businesses to receive awards from the Skoll Foundation at this week’s Skoll World Forum, Britain’s leading event for social enterprise.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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The World’s Cheapest Hospital Has to Get Even Cheaper
Cancer surgery for $700, a heart bypass for $2,000. Pretty good, but under India’s new health-care system, it’s not good enough.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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First-of-its-kind development impact bond launched in Cameroon to save newborn babies
The Cameroon Kangaroo Mother Care Development Impact Bond (Cameroon KMC DIB) aims to reach more than 2,200 newborns with life-improving care. Money will fund scale up of Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC) in Cameroon to help newborns survive and thrive.
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- Finance, Health Care, Investing
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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In a Poor Kenyan Community, Cheap Antibiotics Fuel Deadly Drug-Resistant Infections
Antibiotics, the miracle drugs credited with saving tens of millions of lives, have never been more accessible to the world’s poor, thanks in large part to the mass production of generics in China and India. Across much of the developing world, it costs just a few dollars to buy drugs like amoxicillin, a first-line antibiotic that can be used against a broad range of infections, from bacterial pneumonia and chlamydia to salmonella, strep throat and Lyme disease.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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How AI helps mothers in Kenya get the care they need, faster
In many settings around the world, mothers get in touch with their providers, friends or search the internet for these answers. But what about a mother who only has a primary school education, living in a rural community in Kenya, whose connection to the outside world is simple feature phone?
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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African e-health startups secure $1.5m Skoll Foundation grants
African e-health startups mPedigree and mPharma are among the five organisations to have been awarded US$1.5 million in grant funding after winning the 2019 Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship.
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- Entrepreneurship, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Kenya steps up Aids battle as building starts on $100m drug factory
The drugs, which will be made in Nairobi in a partnership between the government, the Global Fund and local drug manufacturers, will dramatically reduce Kenya’s spending on its Aids epidemic, said the country’s medical director, Dr Jackson Kioko.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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