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Selling affordable water filters to the bottom of the pyramid
In a five-year span, Chandrasekaran Jayaraman (Chandra) visited approximately 1,000 villages in India to restore dilapidated temples and heritage structures. He first discovered the problem when visiting some villages in Chennai, noticing that most buildings had heavy vegetation but were still standing strong.
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Merck’s Expansion Plans in Africa And its Continental Outlook
Dr Karl-Ludwig Kley, Merck CEO and Chairman of Executive board is a man who believes in Africa and says Merck is in the continent to stay. Read on as he talks to Africa Science News
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U.N. Vows to Eliminate Open Defecation by 2025
At the height of his election campaign last October, Narendra Modi, India’s Hindu nationalist leader, briefly set aside his spiritual aspirations when he told a surprised audience that economic development should take precedence over religion.
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Global health: Deadly dinners
Polluting biomass stoves, used by one-third of the global population, take a terrible toll. But efforts to clean them up are failing.
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OPINION: We’re All Liars: Creative Storytelling Is the Nonprofit Sector’s Drug of Choice
On May 21, 2014, Newsweek funneled years of speculation and doubt into a single piece that, once and for all, brought the legendary Somaly Mam into the spotlight for a type of fraud that has become the Achilles heal of the nonprofit world.
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Investing in Global Health: The Role of the Private Sector and Technology in sub-Saharan Africa
Would you ever consider strapping a small sensor to your finger? One that connects to your phone and detects your malaria status, via an app?
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GSK Announces Vaccine Price Freeze in Support of GAVI Alliance
GSK reported that it would freeze the prices of its vaccines for five years for developing countries that graduate from GAVI Alliance. By committing to offer GAVI Alliance prices for vaccines against pneumococcal disease, rotavirus and cervical cancer, GSK will support developing country governments as they transition to financing the full cost of their local vaccination programs.
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Q&A: Social Enterprise Helps Vegetable Vendors In Nairobi Slum
After graduating from the prestigious London School of Economics, Kenyan Suraj Gudka, 21, didn’t go for a white-collar job in accounting.Instead he opted to work with slum communities, co-founding SokoText, a social enterprise that harnesses the power of short messaging services (text messages) to create demand for produce sold by micro entrepreneurs in urban Nairobi slums.
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