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This Microfinance Startup Teaches Students in Bangladesh and Africa How to Code
Microfinance loans are small, do not require an extensive credit history, and are just enough to build something basic, like launching a grocery business or buying a taxi. In recent years, they have come to represent a source of salvation for the economically disadvantaged.
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- Education, Technology
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- microfinance
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A Ugandan Scientist Found a Way to Detect Ebola in 5 Minutes but Couldn’t Get Funding
A Ugandan scientist has developed a rapid diagnostic test that can detect Ebola proteins in less than five minutes at the point of care in the community. This is the first rapid diagnostic test that is able to detect various strains of the Ebola and Marburg viruses.
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- Education, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Gates Foundation, Seattle Research Institute Team to Give Vaccines a Shot in the Arm
Three powerhouses in the global health sector have teamed to open a new vaccine center in Seattle.
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- Education, Health Care
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How Unilever Is Harnessing Its Brand and Consumer Know-How to Tackle Hygiene
It’s one of the most cost effective public health interventions and it could prevent disease, death and also improve education outcomes, but the challenge for hand-washing is convincing people to actually do it. Unilever, a powerful global brand, is working both through its business and with partners to leverage the company’s skills to help tackle the issue, both because it will grow markets but also because there’s a clear moral case for doing so.
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- Agriculture, Education, Health Care
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Innovations in Systems Thinking – 5 Things the World Can Learn From SOCAP15
The biggest challenges of our time do not require patchwork solutions, innovative smartphone apps, or miracle pills, instead they require systems-level innovations that can tackle the root cause of the world's most serious issues.
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- Education, Environment, Health Care
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Student Entrepreneurs Win Hult Prize With Radical Early Childhood Education Model
Juan Diego Prudot was successful at a very young age. With the abundant opportunities afforded those of means, he has chosen the path of a social entrepreneur in an effort to improve early childhood education around the world.
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- Education
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Expanding the Boundaries of Global Health: The Intersection of the Public and Private Sector
“There is a shift taking place in the public health arena to strategically engage the private sector to address global health needs,” said Bridget McHenry, a fellow for Global Health Fellows Program II, serving as organizational development adviser for Office of Population and Reproductive Health in U.S. Agency for International Development’s Global Health Bureau.
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3 Scientists Win Nobel Prize in Medicine for Parasite-Fighting Therapies
Three scientists were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering “therapies that have revolutionized the treatment of some of the most devastating parasitic diseases,” the Nobel committee announced on Monday.
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- Education, Health Care