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Where Does Innovation Meet Scale?: Leveraging cross-sector collaborations to expand impact
How can the innovation of the social enterprise sector meet the scale of the World Bank, USAID, the United Nations, or emerging market governments? This collision has the potential to create new systems, shatter old ones, and ultimately make us more effective and efficient at delivering products and services to the poor. Blair Miller explores some promising cross-sector collaborations - and the opportunities they signify for social enterprise.
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- Health Care, Social Enterprise
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World economy in a tizzy, but Indian pharma flying high
Although global economic recovery still remains fragile and the road back to normalcy is a long and difficult one, the fortunes of India’s pharmaceutical industry remain upbeat.
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- Health Care
- Region
- South Asia
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- public health
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Cancer Vaccines Get a Price Cut in Poor Nations
The two companies that make vaccines against cervical cancer announced Thursday that they would cut their prices to the world’s poorest countries below $5 per dose.
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- Health Care
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- public health
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Full of Sound and Fury: But does America’s Medicaid debate signify anything for global health? Bi-weekly Checkup (5/10/13)
As BoP countries seek to improve health outcomes and increase access to care, there are a lot of questions about what’s the most workable approach. Unfortunately, in the U.S., a recent study on the effectiveness of public health insurance has produced a lot more heat than light. We take a look at the controversy, along with other posts you might have missed, in NextBillion Health Care’s Bi-Weekly Checkup.
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- Education, Health Care
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- public health, research
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At Long Last: Is mental health poised to take its place on the global health agenda?
Mental illness is a taboo that extends across cultures - and that stigma is one reason it has traditionally been an afterthought in global health discussions. But there’s a growing sense that this may be changing. As mental health seems poised to emerge as a major priority on the global health agenda, we’ve assembled this series of video presentations and interviews with global mental health practitioners, researchers and advocates.
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- Health Care
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- public health
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Preventing Drug Shortages With Cell Phones in Malawi
Eighty percent of the 13 million Malawians live in rural areas, making delivering health services challenging, especially in remote parts with no roads.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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One Step Closer to Ending Malaria: Public-private partnerships tap the potential of synthetic anti-malarial treatment
PATH and its partners in the public and private sector recently began producing a new synthetic version of artemisinin, the key ingredient in the gold-standard malaria treatment. This promises to bolster the existing botanical supply and meet approximately one-third of the global demand. According to PATH CEO Steve Davis, this milestone shows the strength of collaboration across the public and private sectors to advance science for the benefit of global health.
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- Health Care
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Big Pharma in Africa: Weighing corporate citizenship and the bottom line
In the early 2000s, pharmaceutical companies were high on activists’ hit lists. Today, the discourse seems merrier.
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- Health Care
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- public health