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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
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- public health
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Pharmacovigilance Reporting Goes Digital in Kenya
Monitoring and reporting of adverse drug reactions (ADRs) and poor-quality human medicines has gone digital in Kenya.
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- Health Care, Impact Assessment
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Social Enterprise Through a Wide Angle Lens : G20 Inclusive Business Workshop Asia focuses on benefits beyond income
Following the annual G20 Summit in Mexico last June, the G20 Challenge was created to celebrate some of the world’s most accomplished social entrepreneurs. Moreover, in order to showcase the winners and share lessons learned at a local level, it began its Regional Inclusive Business Workshops, which bring together select groups of social entrepreneurs, ecosystem builders, policy makers, and academics to discuss salient challenges and innovative ways to surmount them.
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- Health Care, Social Enterprise
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The Accidental Social Enterprise: VSee’s unexpected foray into BoP health care
Milton Chen founded VSee to provide a fully encrypted, low bandwidth alternative to Skype. But his video conferencing and screen share application was soon adopted by BoP health care providers, which now represent a growing portion of the company’s business. In this post, Chen describes how VSee has catered to this unexpected market through a suite of innovative telemedicine tools.
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- Health Care, Technology
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How one social enterprise is leading the fight against malaria
Living Goods, a social enterprise based in San Francisco, has built a network of door-to-door salespeople in Uganda.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- public health
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Toxic waste sites detrimental to health in India: research
Toxic waste sites in India with elevated levels of lead and chromium are causing disease, disability and even death, leading to loss of healthy years of life among people, according to a new research.
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- Health Care
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- public health, waste
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Viva la Revolucion?: What can other countries learn from Cuba’s health care model?
There are no shortage of reasons to be critical of communism, or of the Cuban government. And free enterprise brings innovative solutions to poverty and health care delivery that top-down systems can’t match. But Cuba’s health care system has managed to deliver impressive results with very limited resources. In this Q&A and presentation, Dr. Peter Bourne discusses the Cuban model, and what developing (and developed) countries could learn from it.
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- Health Care
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- public health
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How solar panels are leading the fight against malaria
Kenyan island aims to become free of the disease thanks to solar-powered, insecticide-free mosquito traps
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- Energy, Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- public health, solar
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