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How to Build a Market for Eyeglasses: More than 600 million people have serious vision problems and they — and society — pay a steep price
It would take $5 million to $10 million in venture capital to start an international company that would buy a million eyeglasses in mainland China at around 50 cents apiece, design robust, visually appealing mobile display stands ... (and develop) an effective global distribution and marketing strategy.
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- Health Care
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- poverty alleviation, scale
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‘Nation’s economic situation influences health of people’
Academique, an inter-disciplinary group in the DST Centre for Interdisciplinary Mathematical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University (BHU) held a discussion on 'Social determinants of health' in the 275th session on Sunday.
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- Health Care
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Why city life is unhealthy
The rapid increase in the number of urban inhabitants will be among the most important global health issues of the 21st century.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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No pneumonia vaccines for Kampala
In an effort to protect infants from Pneumonia, the ministry of Health is rolling out administration of the Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine (PCV), starting this week.
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- Health Care
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- supply chains, vaccines
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Rajiv Shah And Tony Blair On Impact Investing
A new investment fund structured by JPMorgan Chase & Co. and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will, for the first time, allow individual and institutional investors the opportunity to finance late-stage global health technologies that have the potential to save millions of lives in low-income countries.
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- Health Care, Impact Assessment
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Weekly Roundup (1/18/14): Market Building is Cool
The development agenda spotlight is widening to include not just those who design cool products, but those who truly understand BoP market dynamics. Or those who do both, like the nonprofit D-Rev.
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New malaria discovery may lead to better vaccine and treatment
Washington University School of Medicine said on Thursday that researchers have discovered how a form of malaria common in India, Southeast Asia and South America attacks blood cells.
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Sevamob Announces Seva360, an Innovative Health Exchange for Patients and Healthcare Providers
Sevamob is an Atlanta based company working to fundamentally transform the delivery of primary healthcare in the developing countries. Sevamob is delighted to announce Seva360, an innovative health exchange that enables patients to find, connect with and use tele-health or in-clinic services from participating health providers and is rapidly signing new consumers and healthcare providers on the exchange.
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- Health Care
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