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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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New vaccine approach imprisons malaria parasite in blood cells
May 22 (Reuters) - Scientists seeking a vaccine against malaria, which kills a child every minute in Africa, have developed a promising new approach intended to imprison the disease-causing parasites inside the red blood cells they infect.
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GE Healthcare Is Focusing On Emerging Markets, R&D And Cost Cuts To Drive Growth
Driven by growth from the emerging markets and gains from cost cutbacks, profits from GE‘s healthcare segment have risen strongly in the last few years.
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Life Without Cola: ColaLife founder Berry says anti-diarrhea effort didn’t need Coca-Cola’s distribution system, after all
For 20 years, Simon Berry dreamed of including life-saving anti-diarrhea medicine in Coca-Cola crates. After the dream came true with ColaLife, however, he discovered that the piggyback method was actually a constraint; people were buying more anti-diarrhea kits than Coke.
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PRESS RELEASE: Zambian Government and IBM Provide Improved Access to Life Saving Drugs
LUSAKA, Zambia, May 22, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced a collaboration with the Zambian Ministry of Health to provide citizens with improved access to 200 life saving drugs. Supported by the World Bank, the Department for International Development, UNICEF and London Business School, Zambia's Medical Stores Limited (MSL) will deploy a new medical supply chain pilot project using sophisticated analytics and mobile technologies to better manage medicine inventory and delivery.
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India asks BRICS nations to use flexibilities under TRIPS for increased accessibility to medicines
India has urged other members of the BRICS nations (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) to use flexibilities and safeguards under TRIPS like compulsory licencing and parallel imports to push down the prices and increase accessibility to medicines.
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