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The Female Health Company Joins the International AIDS Society’s Industry Liaison Forum
The Female Health Company (NASDAQ - CM: FHCO), which manufactures the world's leading female condom, today announced its corporate partnership with the International AIDS Society's Industry Liaison Forum (ILF). The Female Health Company, the only HIV prevention technology company represented in the ILF, will work alongside preeminent thought leaders, research and academic institutions, and pharmaceutical companies in setting the tone for the next generation's response to the global HIV epidemic.
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The Rising Global Health Crisis No One Is Talking About
torcyclists can seem invincible as they dodge and weave their way through traffic and zip down alleyways. But beyond a motorcycle’s quick and convenient capabilities is a dark story: a developing global crisis of road fatalities.
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Too Many Cooks: How lack of effective leadership almost killed my social enterprise
Fernando Noroña co-founded Deltarec to advance Mexico’s plastic recycling efforts. The company was initially run by two funders and four entrepreneurs, with decisions made by a 10-strong management board dominated by its funding partners. But this leadership structure soon became a prime factor in the company’s struggles, as Noroña describes in the latest post in our series on social enterprise failure.
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Neeti Kailas: Crafting Affordable Health Care Through Design
Call it providence. Twelve years ago, Neeti Kailas happened to walk the corridors of Ahmedabad’s Vikram Sarabhai Hospital. She was a student of product design then, at the National Institute of Design (NID) and was trying to ascertain potential project ideas—design problems she could find solutions to. That walk turned out to be a game changer. All around her, she could see things that needed fixing. Kailas decided that she was the woman for the job.
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Press Release: Afaxys Pharmaceuticals Partners with Project Ruby to Bring Affordable Contraceptives to Women Worldwide
Afaxys Pharmaceuticals, a division of Afaxys, Inc., is proud to announce a first-of-its-kind partnership with Project Ruby (PRJKT RUBY), an innovative online platform, to bring affordable contraceptives to women in the United States and the developing world.
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Greener sex? Condoms Now Come in a Spectrum of Earth-Friendly Tones
From irritating chemicals to a troubled supply chain, condoms haven’t always been the kindest to the earth, or our bodies. Here are three companies trying to change that.
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Twitter Top Ten – 2/15/15
We’ve got plenty of tweets in this "Valentine’s Day Weekend" edition of our Twitter Top Ten. And we’ve even thrown in a holiday-themed tweet just for the occasion - a great example of behavioral science humor (yes, there is such a thing). Beyond that, we’ve got tweets covering everything from the ongoing debate over microcredit to the (hopeful) winding down of an epidemic in this week’s list.
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Spending More, Getting Less: Public health expenditures aren’t paying off in South Africa, so private firms are stepping into the gap
South Africans have relatively low out-of-pocket health care expenses, while government spending on health care is comparatively high. But that hasn’t translated into quality services for the country’s poor. A new initiative seeks to understand how private sector innovators are finding unique ways to serve the needs of low-income South Africans in this unique country context.
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