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Analysis: Microfinance Lenders Take Advantage of Cambodian Garment Workers During COVID
Cambodia’s microlenders have come under rising scrutiny as they are linked to predatory lending, child labour and coerced land sales
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- Coronavirus, Health Care
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- South Asia
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- manufacturing, vaccines
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Press Release: VisionSpring Raises $1.5 Million for India COVID-19 Response and Will Deliver More Than 1,000 Oxygen Concentrators to Expand Care
Social Enterprise Deploys Global Team to Procure Personal Protective Equipment and Oxygen Concentrators in Race to Meet Medical Needs in India
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- Coronavirus, Health Care
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- Asia Pacific
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Press Release: DFC and FMO Launch $75 Million Co-Financing Facility to Boost COVID-19 Response in Developing Countries
Collaboration will bring much-needed liquidity to businesses in developing countries impacted by the pandemic
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- Coronavirus, Finance, Health Care
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- Global
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Press Release: A First-of-Its-Kind USD $1,500,000 Philanthropic Pooled Fund Created to Strengthen Healthcare Systems in Southeast Asia
Solutions providing better access and delivery to a range of primary healthcare services will be awarded unrestricted operational grants.
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- Coronavirus, Health Care
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- South Asia
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Analysis: The COVID-19 Response Has Shown What We Are Capable Of When We Work Together
When India entered into lockdown early in 2020, lives and livelihoods were thrown into disarray. Among those hardest hit were informal waste pickers. Unable to continue working, most lost their income overnight.
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- Coronavirus, Health Care, Social Enterprise
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- Global
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Analysis: What Is the Argument Against Lifting COVID Vaccine Patents?
The world's major vaccine-producing countries are for the first time opening the door to the suspension of intellectual property rights for COVID-19 vaccines.
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- Coronavirus, Health Care
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- Global
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- vaccines
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Preparing Community Health Workers to Deploy the COVID-19 Vaccine: Five Lessons on Digital Training Learned From the Ebola Crisis
Though COVID-19 deaths continue to rise around the globe, growing access to vaccines provides a ray of hope. As Monica Amponsah, Bobbi Gray and Gigi Gatti at Grameen Foundation explain, community health workers can play a key role in bringing the vaccine to vulnerable communities in the developing world. They discuss the digital solutions Grameen Foundation developed to help community health workers support the Ebola vaccine trials in Sierra Leone, and share five lessons for leveraging mobile tools to help these workers deploy COVID-19 vaccinations.
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- Coronavirus, Health Care, Technology
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Analysis: 6 Ways Social Entrepreneurs Are Saving Lives During India’s COVID-19 Crisis
With India bearing witness to the second wave of COVID-19 and one of the most serious health crises of all times, the situation on the ground is grim.
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- Coronavirus, Health Care, Social Enterprise
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- Asia Pacific
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