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Warby Parker gets its unicorn horn
Add hip eyewear startup Warby Parker to Fortune’s Unicorn List: the company has raised a new funding round of $100 million that pushes its valuation over the $1 billion mark.
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The Healthy State of Medical Tourism in Sub-Saharan Africa
Well-known as a destination for experiencing some of the world’s most breathtaking natural assets, the Sub-Saharan African region is making progress in staking a larger claim to the multibillion dollar medical tourism industry and is the fastest growing region for wellness tourism.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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India explores ‘heat-proof’ vaccines to stop vital medicines going to waste
As India is witnessing wastage of at least 50 per cent of vaccines stocked by various healthcare agencies owing to heat exposure, the Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSO) has decided to explore the idea of developing thermostable vaccines.
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- supply chains, vaccines, waste
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Public health: Behind a vaccine
In August 2014, officials from the World Health Organization (WHO) called global-health specialist Adrian Hill, who is the director of a non-profit vaccine-research centre. They had an urgent question: how soon could the centre launch a clinical trial for an Ebola vaccine? ... Within a month of the phone call, the institute had launched an Ebola-research initiative.
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Price capping takes sheen off condom sales following government decision
It's the condom makers turn to seek protection as sales of the male contraceptive have plunged drastically following a government decision to dub it an essential drug and cap its price more than a year ago.
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Nine Humanitarian Businesses Win Bloomberg-Funded Genesis Challenge
Genesis Generation Challenge Recipients of this year are: Build Israel and Palestine (BIP); Building Up (Canada); eNable 3d Printed Prosthetics; LAVAN (Israel); Prize4Life (Israel); Sanergy (Kenya); Sesame (Israel); Spark (Burundi); and Vera Solutions (United States, India).
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We’re Learning How to Sell Toilets in West Africa
With the excitement and buzz of World Water Day behind us I’m left both inspired and concerned. I’m inspired because there is a growing understanding by WASH professionals that it will take market development and systemic change to truly solve the problem. These methods look overall at what is working and not working in terms of WASH services for populations at risk across value chains and within the market system, and then, based on that analysis, develop targeted interventions with pro-poor innovations to make markets work. What is also exciting is the impact that adopting and implementing these approaches might have on the development sector in general.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Scientists Race to Beat Mosquito Resistance in Fight Against Malaria
Mosquitoes are rapidly developing resistance to insecticides used in bed nets that millions of people rely on to protect them from malaria, experts say.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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