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Africa: Mobile Mast Vaccine Storage Project Wins Global Prize
An organisation that uses surplus energy from mobile phone masts to refrigerate vaccines in remote areas was named as the Best Mobile Health Product or Service at the Global Mobile Awards this week.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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In New Haven, Barbara Bush talks about public health innovation at Yale
Social entrepreneurs from Yale Univeristy are changing the nature of public health, from creating replacement arteries to training the global health leaders of tomorrow.
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- Education, Health Care
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Uganda accuses World Bank of aid blackmail
Uganda accused the World Bank of blackmail on Friday after the lender stalled a $90m loan over the east African nation’s adoption of a draconian anti-gay law.
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- Health Care, Impact Assessment
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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The Ticket to Ride a ‘Smart’ Bus Includes Public Health Info: Engaging, educating and learning from Nairobi commuters via SMS
A recent project shows that public transit can be a great platform for research and education, and has the potential to give small businesses an effective communication and marketing facility that previously only large companies could afford.
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- Health Care, Technology
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Why Business of Building Toliets Depends on Debunking Sanitation Myths
Sanergy is successfully using a variety of strategies to unwind people’s habits of using unhygienic sanitation and adopting Fresh Life toilets.
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- Health Care
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USAID and P&G Kick Off Global Development Alliance to Improve Health in Myanmar
Administrator Rajiv Shah yesterday helped deliver the first liter of clean drinking water under the Global Development Alliance (GDA) between the US Agency for International Development (USAID) and Procter & Gamble (P&G) to improve health in India.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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- South Asia
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NexThought Monday – Choosing Your End-Game : Alternatives to the fund-raising merry-go-round for impact-driven nonprofits
Nonprofits typically set out on the “elusive quest for scale” with a desire to have greater impact. Does this mean that a failure to achieve scale in funding implies a failure to achieve scale in impact? Yes and no. A new article shows several alternatives to the fund-raising merry-go-round for impact.
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- Health Care, Impact Assessment
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Indian drug firms may lose out as US pharma supply chain consolidates
Consolidation in the pharmaceuticals supply chain in the US will weigh on the bargaining power of Indian drug firms in that market, top Indian players apprehend. A spate of acquisitions and joint ventures — 16 in 2012 and 10 in 2013 — has resulted in fewer suppliers of prescription drugs, which might work against the interests of Indian firms.
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- Health Care
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- supply chains
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