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Want international growth? Africa’s set to double pharma sales in 5 years
Pharma growth in China may be slowing and Europe stalling, but there's one area where drugmakers might actually achieve some big growth, according to McKinsey & Co. That's Africa, a mere $4.7 billion market in 2003 and $20.8 billion a decade later.
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- Health Care
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Aavishkaar Raises Rs 500 crore for Foreign Investments
Aavishkaar, India's biggest social entrepreneurship focused venture capital fund, would be investing about Rs 500 crore ($75 million) in start-ups from Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Indonesia.
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- Health Care, Investing
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- South Asia
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- venture capital
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Solving Complex Social Problems Through Collaboration
Geneva Global, a tiny but mighty philanthropic consulting firm that specializes in international development, is helping to change the world from its small suburban corner of Wayne, Pa. With a team of just 52 staff members, they are quietly igniting social good on a global scale through the repetitive flexing of an approach called dumbbell collaboration.
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- Health Care, Impact Assessment
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- philanthropy
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Africa: Gates Foundation Changes Focus to ‘Last Mile’ of Delivery
AllAfrica's Juanita Williams andMelissa Britzinterviewed Dr Ayo Ajayi, the director of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation's Africa Team, about the foundation's new approach to working with the continent.
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- Health Care
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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This High-Tech Vision Test Could Make the World See 20/20
While providing charity eye care in Haiti, Joel Kassalow noticed that a complex eye-testing machine was essential, unwieldy and too costly to buy in multiples — and it became a bottleneck in giving people necessary care. So he offered an innovation he’d created at his company, Smart Vision Labs: a version of the same machine at one-fiftieth the weight and one-hundredth the cost.
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- Health Care, Technology
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Visualizing stagnation: Funding stalled for global health
There’s plenty of moral and rhetorical support for fighting diseases of poverty, but if you look at global health spending trends lately the story is one of stagnation, or even decline.
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- Health Care
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- public health
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In Global Fight Against HIV, China’s Circumcision Device Makes the Cut
China wants a bigger slice of the global health market and it has a new tactic for getting it: circumcision.
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- Health Care, Technology
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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Surgical Intervention: How to Improve Access to Surgical Care in the Developing World
Access to surgical and anaesthetic care is an essential, but often forgotten, component of health care in the developing world.
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- Health Care
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- public policy
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