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Don’t Call It A Robo: Motif Launches Custom Automated Impact Investing
Advisors late to the impact investing game may have missed their chance -- there’s now a digital platform for that. Silicon Valley-based Motif Investing is introducing Motif Impact, a values-oriented digital investing solution.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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- North America
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Three Promising Practices for Management of NCDs in India
Common non-communicable diseases (NCDs), like diabetes and hypertension, are silent killers that plague a large percentage of the workforce and reduce productivity globally, posing a threat to the development of nearly any economy. NCDs account for over 38 million deaths every year, roughly 68% of the global deaths annually.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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The Startups Using Apps and Phones to Solve the Global Healthcare Crisis
At this year's WIRED Health, pharmaceutical company Sandoz is launching its first-ever startup competition. Sandoz HACk challenges young entrepreneurs to use mobile-health technologies to help bring access to healthcare in tough environments.
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- Health Care, Technology
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UBS Raises $110 Million Fund to Invest in Woman-Led Firms
UBS Group AG’s American wealth management unit has helped raise $110 million for a U.S. venture capital fund that will invest in companies in the health, education and environmental areas that are led by or co-managed by women.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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- North America
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High-Pressure Spray Delivers Vaccines Directly into Cheek
As good chefs stress, presentation matters. The same holds true for vaccinemakers, who know that how you deliver the ingredients powerfully affects potency. Now, researchers have devised a gel pill that can painlessly spray vaccine into the cheek and reach cells in the underlying tissue, potentially triggering what’s known as a mucosal immune response. This, in turn, might help thwart infections with pathogens like HIV, human papillomavirus, influenza, and gonococci that enter the body through the mouth, nose, or genitals.
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- Health Care
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- North America
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- vaccines
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Floating Hospitals Treat Those Impacted by Rising Seas
In parts of Bangladesh, flooding makes it impossible to build permanent hospitals. But that doesn’t mean people can’t get healthcare.
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- Environment, Health Care
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- North Africa & Near East
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Cheaper and easier to handle, UPI apps pose challenge to e-wallets in India
Apps using the newly launched Unified Payments Interface (UPI) are threatening to dislodge the hold mobile wallets currently have on small & medium enterprises (SMEs) and retailers. Platforms like Goodbox, Shoptimize and Nowfloats, which help small ventures take their businesses online, say there's growing interest among these companies to test the UPI payment method.
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- Technology
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- South Asia
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- digital payments
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Full steam ahead for healthcare providing ‘trains of hope’
The Phelophepa train draws a crowd wherever it goes. The sound of the lumbering 19-car clinic-on-rails signals the arrival of badly needed free healthcare for thousands of South Africans as it tours the country.
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- Education, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- public health
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