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How Is the Growing Middle Class Affecting the Emerging Markets?
The world's middle class is growing. According to Pew Research Center, 63 million people entered Latin America's middle class over the last decade; it is estimated that Nigeria's middle class grew by 600 percent between 2000 and 2014.
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- Education, Health Care
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‘Riders For Health’ – Post-Ebola Health Delivery Measure Launched
Riders for Health, an international social enterprise that manages and maintains vehicles for health-focused partners in Sub-Sahara Africa has assured the provision of such services in post-Ebola Liberia, aimed at improving Liberia's health delivery system in the area of transport management.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Regeneron Announces Agreement with BARDA for the Development of New Antibody Treatment for Ebola
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc.REGN, -1.42% today announced an agreement with the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to develop, test and manufacture a monoclonal antibody therapy for the treatment of Ebola virus infection.
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With $37.5 M Series B Funding, Healthcare Startup Portea Plans Massive Hiring and Acquisitions
Entrepreneurs rarely announce funding on a Sunday. But today is an exception. Home focused healthcare platform Portea announced that it has raised $37.5 million Series B round led by existing investor – Accel and International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group; Qualcomm Ventures, and Ventureast.
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Viewpoint: Sanitation Financing: An Opportunity to End Open Defecation
“Why do we have toilets at school but not at home?” This question from one of her children prompted Nusrat, a wife and mother of six living in India, to apply for a sanitation loan. Within two weeks of receiving the loan, Nusrat was able to purchase a toilet. Now, one year later, the monthly instalments on Nusrat’s loan have all been repaid and her family is happier, healthier, and safer.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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Gates Foundation Opens Free TB Medicine Gate to All
Tuberculosis (TB) patients seeking treatment at private hospitals anywhere in the state will no longer have to pay for the expensive drugs.
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MOOCs on the Move
s MOOCs grow in influence and sophistication, they’re no longer simply reimagined in a Harvard classroom or even in a nearby studio. Recently, transforming a residential course — going digital viaHarvardX — included filming in far-flung Rwanda and Haiti.
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- Education, Health Care, Technology
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Gambian Community Project Helps Women Turn Waste to Worth
In scrubby wasteland tucked behind a bustling market on the Gambia coast, five women in overalls determinedly hammered at small metal cylinders, the din reverberating around the tin-roofed shelter.
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- Energy, Health Care
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- waste
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