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Global health: Deadly dinners
Polluting biomass stoves, used by one-third of the global population, take a terrible toll. But efforts to clean them up are failing.
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OPINION: We’re All Liars: Creative Storytelling Is the Nonprofit Sector’s Drug of Choice
On May 21, 2014, Newsweek funneled years of speculation and doubt into a single piece that, once and for all, brought the legendary Somaly Mam into the spotlight for a type of fraud that has become the Achilles heal of the nonprofit world.
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How a Blended Model Can Solve Some Market Failures (Part 1): Foundation-owned social enterprise combines features of philanthropy, business
Medical equipment manufacturers face challenges selling in low-income countries. That led Gradian Health Systems to adopt a foundation-owned social enterprise model, allowing it to function as both a commercial entity and a nonprofit.
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- Environment, Health Care
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Investing in Global Health: The Role of the Private Sector and Technology in sub-Saharan Africa
Would you ever consider strapping a small sensor to your finger? One that connects to your phone and detects your malaria status, via an app?
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GSK Announces Vaccine Price Freeze in Support of GAVI Alliance
GSK reported that it would freeze the prices of its vaccines for five years for developing countries that graduate from GAVI Alliance. By committing to offer GAVI Alliance prices for vaccines against pneumococcal disease, rotavirus and cervical cancer, GSK will support developing country governments as they transition to financing the full cost of their local vaccination programs.
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Q&A: Social Enterprise Helps Vegetable Vendors In Nairobi Slum
After graduating from the prestigious London School of Economics, Kenyan Suraj Gudka, 21, didn’t go for a white-collar job in accounting.Instead he opted to work with slum communities, co-founding SokoText, a social enterprise that harnesses the power of short messaging services (text messages) to create demand for produce sold by micro entrepreneurs in urban Nairobi slums.
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Zambia And IBM To Provide Increased Access To Life Saving Drugs
VENTURES AFRICA – IBM has announced a collaboration with Zambia’s Ministry of Health to provide citizens with better access to 200 lifesaving drugs.
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Weekly Roundup – 5/24/14: ColaLife founders show the power of listening and adapting
Why did Simon Berry and his ColaLife team decide against including medicine in crates of Coke delivered to the most remote and medically underserved regions in the world, despite dreaming about doing just that for 20 years? Because they learned “it was the space in the market that was important, not the space in the crates,” Berry said.
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