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Weavers Turn Silk Into Diabetes Test Strips
It's a new way to do silk screening, that's for sure. Bangalore-based Achira Labs has figured out a way to hand weave diabetes test strips from silk. That sounds pretty luxurious compared to the standard materials of plastic or paper. But silk turns out to have several advantages in a country like India, where weavers who can work a handloom are abundant and the material is readily available and inexpensive.
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- South Asia
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Tailor-Made Vaccine Set to Banish Africa’s Meningitis Epidemics
The website of a global partnership formed to wipe out deadly meningitis epidemics in sub-Saharan Africa is closing down with a simple message: "Thank you and goodbye!".
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Social Stock Exchanges – Do We Need Them?
Public interest in the development of global impact investing received a significant boost last year, due to an international campaign to divest in fossil fuels by superannuation, pension, and university endowment funds.
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- Impact Assessment
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Microcapital Brief: Investview Acquires Gate Global Impact, Gateway 2.0 Will Continue to Link Social Enterprises, Funders
Gate Global Impact (GGI), a US-based, regulatory-compliant electronic marketplace that focuses on impact investing, has been acquired by Investview, another US-based financial services company [1]. As part of the deal, Investview has also acquired GGI’s Gateway 2.0, a website that enables small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) listed on the United Nation’s Global Compact Social Enterprise Hub to access financing for projects intended to produce a financial return while addressing challenges relating to “human rights, labor, environment and anti-corruption.” Investview intends to continue operating the platform through GGI. Mr Vincent Molinari, the chief executive officer of GGI, and Mr Joseph Latona, president of GGI, will join Investview. The financial details of the deal have not been made public.
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Viewpoint: Dirty Money and Development
Dirty money—MNCs’ undeclared profits, the proceeds of corruption, etc.—can play a large role in ending poverty.
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Insecticide-Treated Nets May Create Super Mosquitoes
Two species of mosquitos have interbred, giving rise to hybrids that can resist the most potent weapons used against them.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Army of Women Educates on Trachoma in Ethiopia
An army of women” in Ethiopia has been recruited to teach friends and neighbors how to prevent trachoma, an eye disease that’s preventable but still very common in many parts of Ethiopia. The confederation of national development NGO’s -- Light For The World – has been working to implement national eye health initiatives to prevent trachoma and other eye diseases through the World Health Organization’s initiative “VISION 2020—the right to sight”.
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- Education, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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The Cloud-Based Tool Improving Healthcare Across the Developing World
Part of a series profiling the finalists in Unilever’s Sustainable Living Young Entrepreneurs Awards, Daniel Yu explains how his social enterprise, Reliefwatch helps track and deliver essential supplies.
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- Health Care, Technology