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Beyond the Aid Debate: Getting smarter about how markets and charity work together is job one for those working in development
"It is time we break through the false dichotomies between for-profit and nonprofit and dive into more realistic issues like how to blend two approaches, how one approach can support the other and where tensions between the two approaches exist," says Blair Miller, vice president of the Millennium Development Goals Health Alliance.
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- Environment, Health Care
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Market solutions to Cambodia’s toilet troubles
PHNOM PENH, 5 June 2014 (IRIN) - Having money in your pocket does not translate into a toilet in your home, so Cambodian sanitation campaigners are trying new ways to encourage latrine construction in a country where years of awareness and subsidy campaigns have not been flush with success.
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- Health Care, Impact Assessment
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- impact investing
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In South Africa, Old Custom Becomes Health Crisis
The young South African thought he was going to the hills to become a man. He came back with a horrifying injury that made him an outcast.
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- Health Care
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Bold Ideas for Big Shifts in Global Health: The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation awards its Grand Challenges Explorations grants
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation made Grand Challenges Explorations grants – some for $100,000 for Phase I grants and others for $1 million for Phase II grants – to fund scientific work on unproven ideas that could solve major global health and development problems.
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- Health Care
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India gang rape case highlights lack of toilets
LUCKNOW, India (AP) — The two teenage girls had walked out together at night, as they did every night, into the wild bamboo fields 10 or 15 minutes from their mud-and-straw huts to relieve themselves. Like millions of families across India, they had no toilet at home.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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Telemedicine in India might be just what the doctor ordered
Between surgeries and hospital rounds one recent day, Dr. Rajiv Parakh made a dash into his Gurgaon office for an appointment he couldn’t miss: a consultation with a patient who lives hundreds of kilometres away.
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- Health Care, Technology
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In Market Dynamics, Creativity Matters: Global organizations using a variety of interventions to leverage their work
R4D’s market dynamics team works to align the needs of manufacturers, countries, financiers and regulators. The goal is to ensure that the most marginalized populations have reliable, high-quality, affordable access to products such as HIV/AIDS treatment, neglected diseases drugs and sanitation technologies.
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- Environment, Health Care
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‘Millions denied end-of-life drugs’
Lack of access to pain relief for dying patients is a "public health emergency", say experts.
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- Health Care
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- public health
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