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OPINION: Did ‘Social Business’ Sink the Cardboard Bike?
It’s time to retire the term “social business.” Better to run a business that honors agreements and respects the dignity of employees and customers.
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- Health Care, Impact Assessment
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How to Beat Malaria, Once and for All
MALARIA is a seasonal disease; with tropical rains come the fevers. In the news media, malaria is also seasonal.
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- Health Care
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GeneXpert’s benefits still not reaching patients
The Department of Health’s multi-million rand investment in an automated, rapid TB test is being short-changed by slow health systems, said researchers this week.
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- Health Care
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GravityLight: Doing More With Less- Designing For The Bottom Of The Pyramid
Globally, 1.3 billion people do not have access to electricity. Millions more are ‘under-electrified’, with unreliable and sporadic supply. Instead they typically rely on kerosene for lighting. Hazardous, expensive and polluting, there is a real need to replace kerosene with a safer, sustainable and affordable light.
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- Health Care
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In global health, is ‘disruption’ a good thing?
What makes for a sound investment in global health? The answer is more complicated than you might think.
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- Health Care
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- impact investing
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Mounting concern as crippling virus reaches Caribbean,USA
Laurence, a 58-year-old Haitian woman who works in my building, woke up with sharp pain and fever and thought she was dying. She was unable to rise from her bed or hold a glass of water because of the pain in her joints. She could not believe this was a real disease, surmising it must be a voodoo spell that her neighbor put on her.
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- Health Care
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Better child TB diagnosis on the horizon
Accurate diagnosis of tuberculosis among children is notoriously difficult because the bacteria causing the disease tend to be detectable in the sputum only of adults, and because the clinical symptoms used to diagnose TB in children are also present in other conditions.
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In South Africa, Old Custom Becomes Health Crisis
The young South African thought he was going to the hills to become a man. He came back with a horrifying injury that made him an outcast.
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- Health Care
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