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Analysis: Covid-19: The World Needs To Back India and South Africa’s Call To Remove Intellectual Property Hurdles
On 2 October, India and South Africa sent a joint communication to the Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights Council of the World Trade Organisation, the multilateral institution formed to promote free trade between countries. The communication asked the body to recommend a waiver of major intellectual-property provisions of the TRIPS agreement for technologies to prevent, contain and treat COVID-19.
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- Coronavirus, Health Care
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Viewpoint: Level the Playing Field for Science in the Global South
Community engagement, open access will strengthen science research in developing countries, writes Nyovani Madise.
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- Health Care
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Press Release: VisionSpring Launches Ergonomic and Affordable Handwashing Stations: To Be Available Across India
VisionSpring (www.visionspring.org), the pioneering social enterprise working with a mission to provide clear vision to all through eyeglasses, announced the launch of ergonomic and affordable handwashing stations across India to provide easy access to hand hygiene for hospitals and healthcare providers, NGOs, CSRs, Government, schools, transport hubs, and workplaces and factories. The launch comes as there is a gradual attempt by the Government towards the restoration of normalcy in India while it still grapples with the COVID-19 pandemic.
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- Coronavirus, Health Care, Technology, WASH
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- Asia Pacific
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- innovation
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Press Release: Villgro Africa Pioneering Social Entrepreneurship in Healthcare and Life Sciences
Villgro Africa, an impact investor that inspires, nurtures, and scales innovation by offering customized technical assistance and investments to early stage social entrepreneurs in Africa today celebrated its 5th anniversary as they go beyond their boundaries to serve the rest of Africa.
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- Health Care, Investing
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- impact investing, scale, SDGs
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Press Release: The Rockefeller Foundation Commits USD1 Billion To Catalyze a Green Recovery From Pandemic
Driving public-private investment, transformative solutions, and a more inclusive, sustainable future. Launching next chapter for the 107-year old philanthropic institution.
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- Coronavirus, Energy, Health Care
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Startups and Venture Capital vs. COVID-19: How an INR 1 Billion Grant Program Is Boosting India’s Pandemic Response
India is home to many innovative startups that are leveraging technology to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. To support them, a group of prominent venture capital funds and founders recently launched ACT Grants, an INR 1 billion effort to fund scale-ready solutions to COVID-related challenges. NextBillion spoke with Mekin Maheshwari, founder of Udhyam Learning Foundation – a key partner in the initiative – about how it is helping India’s startups ramp up their battle against the virus.
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- Coronavirus, Health Care, Investing, Technology
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Ilara Health Secures $1.1 Million Grant To Improve Maternal Health Outcomes in Kenya
Ilara Health, the healthtech company which provides point of care diagnostic testing to small primary care clinics in Kenya, has received a $1.1 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
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- Health Care, Investing, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- impact investing
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Viewpoint: Covid-19: Europeans Can Learn From Developing Countries
When looking at successful strategies, it is the experiences of other developed nations – like Germany and New Zealand – that are predominantly cited by journalists and politicians. There is an apparent unwillingness to learn from developing countries – a blind spot that fails to recognise that “their” local knowledge can be just as relevant to “our” developed world problems.
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- Coronavirus, Health Care, Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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