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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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Tu Youyou’s Nobel Prize for Her Anti-Malaria Drug Inspires China’s Pharmaceutical Firms to Innovate and Improve
Chinese scientist Tu Youyou’s Nobel Prize win has inspired many in China’s pharmaceutical sector, with companies now more keen to grab a greater share of the anti-malaria drug market and producers encouraged to go deeper into studying traditional Chinese medicine’s possible applications in modern science.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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How a Social Entrepreneur Overcame His ‘Arrogant Failure’ and Won Kudos From Oprah
Lucky Iron Fish, a fast-growing social enterprise in Guelph, Ontario, wants to vanquish iron deficiency, a condition affects almost 3.5 billion people around the world.
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- Health Care
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Latest ‘Lemelson Foundation’ Report Spotlights Indian Inventors
A recent report by the Lemelson Foundation highlights financing, technical assistance, mentoring that offers concrete solutions to help invention based businesses thrive. World’s leading funder of invention in service of social and economic change, Lemelson Foundation examines India’s impact ecosystem that caters to the broad network of businesses, funders, and intermediaries that enable social enterprise and inventors potential to grow.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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- South Asia
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- impact investing
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Genocea Stops Pneumonia Vaccine Development After Study Fails
Drug developer Genocea Biosciences Inc said it was suspending the development of a vaccine for pneumonia-causing bacteria after it failed to significantly reduce infection in a mid-stage study.
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- Health Care
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5 Tools to Help Businesses Tackle the SDGs
Now that the Sustainable Development Goals have been signed and sealed, it is time for the private sector to deliver. For many businesses it is a difficult task, in large part because the objectives may seem abstract. Supporting a goal to end poverty in all its forms everywhere or to achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls can come off more as moral aspirations than measurable deliverables.
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- Environment, Health Care
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Apollo Goes Digital, Launches Ask Apollo for Remote Patient Care
Apollo Hospitals introduced its soon-to-be-launched digital platform for healthcare, Ask Apollo, in Bengaluru on?Wednesday. The platform, which is due to be launched on Friday, aims to provide remote healthcare.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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Ampion East Africa Venture Bus Tour Kicks Off
Africa is full of dreams and dreamers; dreamers who have great visions; visions that are the backbones of opportunities. The dreamers need a continent that can offer better technological solutions, better education, better service delivery, better healthcare and better and efficient platforms for doing business.
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- Health Care, Impact Assessment, Investing
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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