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Over 3.3 million lives saved from malaria since 2000, says WHO
The World Health Organization has news about the international battle against malaria: it appears that humanity is winning.
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Watch The Gates Foundation’s New CEO In Action
Bill and Melinda Gates just announced that they have recruited Susan Desmond-Hellmann, until now the chancellor of the University of California, San Francisco, as the chief executive of their foundation.
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- Education, Health Care
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- public health, vaccines
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Small lifestyle changes ‘lower type 2 diabetes risk’
Modest lifestyle changes in diet and activity by South Asian families improve their chance of losing weight to lower their risk of type 2 diabetes, according to a study.
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- Education, Health Care
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Best of 2013: Geeks vs. Quacks: How Swasth Health Centers is out-competing informal providers
In India, trained doctors face stiff competition from informal providers, whose services are affordable and popular despite their lack of qualifications. But in Mumbai, Swasth Health Centers is out-competing the quacks, using technology and management savvy to offer superior services at surprisingly low prices. CHMI’s Rose Reis visited them to see how they’re doing it.
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Over 3.3 million lives saved from malaria since 2000, says WHO
Good news for humanity: efforts to battle the potentially deadly mosquito-borne disease appear to be working.
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- Health Care
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Watch The Gates Foundation’s New CEO In Action
Bill and Melinda Gates just announced that they have recruited Susan Desmond-Hellmann, until now the chancellor of the University of California, San Francisco, as the chief executive of their foundation, which has made huge progress in improving public health in the developing world.
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The Best of 2013: Bridging the Gap with Early Capital for BoP Models: An impact evaluation of VisionSpring in El Salvador
It’s natural for impact investors to focus on companies with measurable social impact and financial returns. But they often overlook models with impact potential that are still in their pre-commercial phase. This lack of early stage capital can limit the development of promising businesses, leading to missed opportunities for the poor and for investors. That’s why the IDB’s Opportunities for the Majority initiative offers grants to pre-commercial pilots like VisionSpring’s eye care model in El Salvador.
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- Health Care, Impact Assessment
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High-tech inventions meet global-health needs in cool ways
Innovators from Washington state blend high-tech research and pragmatic application to create cool, surprising and even downright weird global-health inventions.
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