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The Future of mHealth: Mobile Phones Improve Care in Developing World
People in developing nations depend on mobile phones to access health services and prevent disease, as mobile technology creates a platform for improving healthcare in remote, underserved areas.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- public health
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Benin Makes Headway in Attempt to Reduce Deaths from Malaria
Last year Benin announced free treatment for malaria, and has now followed up by cracking down on fake drugs and recruiting an army of outreach health workers
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- public health
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U.C. Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley Lab Part of White House Poverty Push
Both the University of California, Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory above it on the hill are part of a public-private push to fight poverty around the world.
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- Environment, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Indian Eye Clinic Uses Tiered Pricing to Combat Blindness Among Poor
An expanding network of eye clinics has found an innovative way of providing quality, affordable treatment to millions of blind and visually impaired poor people in India
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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Case Study: SC Johnson and Community Cleaning Services, Sustainable Sanitation in Kenya
In recent years, we have witnessed heightened interest in “reinventing the toilet," or the development of new affordable toilet technologies for low-income urban populations. But often new technology and infrastructure is employed without planning for how to maintain sanitation. As the General Manager of Kenyan social micro franchise Community Cleaning Services (CCS), this case study explores our model.
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- Health Care
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How ‘Toil-o-preneurs’ Are Scaling Sanitation Solutions
Nearly 50 percent of India’s urban poor do not have access to clean toilets. With increasing migration to cities like Mumbai and Delhi, the pressure on public sanitation facilities has been immense. Shramik Sanitation Systems (3S), one of the early social enterprises that looked at sanitation in a holistic manner, provides community toilets in urban environments of India.
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- Health Care
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BRAC puts Entrepreneurs to Work Providing Clean Toilets for Millions
In Bangladesh, the development organization's Water, Sanitation and Hygiene program gives millions of the rural poor a fresh start with latrines at prices fair to buyers and sellers alike.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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- South Asia
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GSK’s Andrew Witty on the Future of Pharma Collaboration to Help Poor Countries
Just before the all-singing, all-dancing launch of the big initiative to control or eliminate 10 neglected diseases – starring 13 CEOs from Big Pharma, the WHO's director general, Margaret Chan, and Bill Gates – I grabbed a few words with Sir Andrew Witty, head of GlaxoSmithKline, who co-chaired the negotiations over the past year with Gates.
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- Health Care