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Secret Social Entrepreneur | It’s not just markets; you must meet needs
Our secret social entrepreneur questions why people join the sector. What takes precedence: profitability or social impact?
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- Health Care, Impact Assessment
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India needs to show the world it respects intellectual property rights: Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
India needs to show the world that it respects intellectual property rights if it wants global pharmaceutical firms to invest in India, according to Biocon Chairman and Managing Director Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw.
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- Health Care, Impact Assessment
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Global Hepatitis Network against ‘silent crisis’
Hepatitis may not be as notorious a disease as HIV/AIDS, but it kills almost as many people each year.
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- Health Care
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Global leaders sign comprehensive charter to tackle stunting in children
The fight against stunting - the world's most urgent nutritional challenge - got a big boost through a global agreement signed by world leaders in London on Saturday.
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- Health Care
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- nutrition
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At Grameen Foundation, an international nonprofit becomes a software developer
The Grameen Foundation was providing health care to pregnant women in Ghana in 2010 when the organization had an idea: As cellphones become more widely available in developing nations, health information can be quickly disseminated to poor patients in remote locations via voice and text messaging.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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New Vaccine Drives Africa Meningitis Cases to Lowest in Decade
Case numbers in Africa's meningitis season this year were the lowest in 10 years thanks to a cheap new vaccine designed to treat a type of the disease common in the so-called meningitis belt, the World Health Organization said on Thursday.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Timeline: Smartphone-enabled health devices
Mobile health has come a long way since the start of 2009 when Apple demonstrated on-stage at its World Wide Developer Conference how blood pressure monitors and blood glucose meters could connect to the iPhone 3G via cables or Bluetooth. MobiHealth News has tracked smartphone-enabled health and fitness devices over the course of the past five years.
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- Health Care, Technology
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