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Gates pledges $776M for malnutrition, unlocks UK commitments
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation — the world’s largest private foundation — will spend $776 million over the next six years to fight malnutrition, a strong signal of support for a historically underfunded sector, according to the foundation’s leaders.
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- Health Care
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- nutrition, philanthropy
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Disrupting Markets, Building Brands: Achieving scale at the BoP is anything but business as usual
It might be difficult to achieve scale in health care businesses in emerging markets, but it’s possible. Or at least that’s what Amitava Chattopadhyay, the GlaxoSmithKline chaired professor of corporate innovation at INSEAD, says. And he’s got examples to prove it.
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- Health Care
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Viewpoint: Investing in Health, Investing in Africa
Africa faces two key challenges to achieve its full potential. The remarkable economic progress of the last 15 years must be sustained. And, this progress must be broadened to include the many millions of people who have yet to benefit from the continent’s rising prosperity.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- impact investing, vaccines
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What Does It Really Mean to Build Health Systems?
Over the past year, discussions around dealing with the Ebola outbreak to bringing cases down to zero invariably circled around the need for health systems strengthening.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Japanese Companies Attack Neglected Diseases
Several Japanese drug companies have joined a new project to find medicines to treat two neglected parasitic diseases, Chagas and leishmaniasis.
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- Health Care
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Kenya’s Miti Health hopes for Unreasonable access to mentors, markets
Kenyan startup Miti Health, which provides chemists with business management and supply chain software on the Android platform, hopes taking part in the Unreasonable East Africa accelerator programme in Kampala this summer will allow it to scope out Uganda as a possible expansion market while also gaining to access to investors and mentors.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- supply chains
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Paving the Way Out of Poverty: Health microinsurance can keep a medical emergency from becoming a financial tragedy
Every year, 100 million people around the world fall into poverty due to medical costs. Insurance is playing an increasing role in helping poor households avoid this tragic outcome. Jenny Nasr of the Microinsurance Network profiles a number of promising programs in countries around the world.
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- Health Care
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- savings
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Food Safety in Southern Africa – Rethinking World Health Worries
The theme for World Health Day, held on 7 April 2015, was 'From farm to plate - make food safe.' The main motivation for the theme was the alarming amount of bacteria borne diseases across the globe, transmitted by eating food which is contaminated by bacteria, viruses, parasites or chemical substances.
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- Health Care
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- nutrition
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