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NexThought Monday – Can Investing in the Rich Serve the Poor?
Investors are increasingly looking at health care in developing countries as an investable sector instead of one dependent on government or philanthropic subsidy, making it more important to find business models that work to ensure the market dynamics are favorable for investment.
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- Health Care, Investing
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How to Beat Malaria, Once and for All
MALARIA is a seasonal disease; with tropical rains come the fevers. In the news media, malaria is also seasonal.
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- Health Care
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GeneXpert’s benefits still not reaching patients
The Department of Health’s multi-million rand investment in an automated, rapid TB test is being short-changed by slow health systems, said researchers this week.
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- Health Care
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GravityLight: Doing More With Less- Designing For The Bottom Of The Pyramid
Globally, 1.3 billion people do not have access to electricity. Millions more are ‘under-electrified’, with unreliable and sporadic supply. Instead they typically rely on kerosene for lighting. Hazardous, expensive and polluting, there is a real need to replace kerosene with a safer, sustainable and affordable light.
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- Health Care
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Weekly Roundup – 6/7/2014: Experience is winning the battle with theory, and that’s good news for social enterprises
More college students are studying abroad, interning and volunteering in an effort to pad their resume, but also to get the personalized education they desire. It could be argued that this is good news for social enterprises focused on health care.
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- Education, Health Care
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In global health, is ‘disruption’ a good thing?
What makes for a sound investment in global health? The answer is more complicated than you might think.
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- Health Care
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- impact investing
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Mounting concern as crippling virus reaches Caribbean,USA
Laurence, a 58-year-old Haitian woman who works in my building, woke up with sharp pain and fever and thought she was dying. She was unable to rise from her bed or hold a glass of water because of the pain in her joints. She could not believe this was a real disease, surmising it must be a voodoo spell that her neighbor put on her.
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- Health Care
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- public health
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Better child TB diagnosis on the horizon
Accurate diagnosis of tuberculosis among children is notoriously difficult because the bacteria causing the disease tend to be detectable in the sputum only of adults, and because the clinical symptoms used to diagnose TB in children are also present in other conditions.
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- Health Care
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