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Taking Health to the Global Scale
UCSD has become one of the first universities in the nation to offer global health as an undergraduate program.
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- Education, Health Care
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OPINION: Let India Make Cheap Medicines
Last November, the United States and India announced an important breakthrough concerning India’s “right-to-food” programme.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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- public policy
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OPINION: Ebola Survivors in West Africa to Share Stories via Mobile App to Help Fight Stigma
Ebola survivors in the three West African countries worst hit by the epidemic will share their stories through a mobile application to be launched on Monday, in a UNICEF-backed campaign to inform and fight stigma around the disease.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Aavishkar Venture Capital to Raise $400 Million in 2015
Aavishkar, the country's biggest social entrepreneurship-focused venture capital fund, is set to raise $400 million (Rs 2,500 crore) in 2015. This would be the biggest amount raised by any fund focusing on the social sector or impact investing in the country.
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- Investing
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- South Asia
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How ‘Desh’ Deshpande Is Helping Indian NGOs Scale Up
Tech billionaire Gururaj 'Desh' Deshpande is helping NGOs scale up and sustain philanthropy initiatives on their own steam. His formula for self-reliance is relevance followed by innovation.
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- Uncategorized
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- South Asia
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Viewpoint: Charity and Investment Should Work Together
When it comes to our greatest social and environmental challenges, let’s first ask: What problem are we trying to solve? Once we know where we’re headed, we can better understand which methods and resources are most needed. Charity and social enterprise both have critical roles. Increasingly, we are seeing the ways charity and social enterprise and investment can work together effectively – along with smart government policy – to drive real and lasting change.
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Anti-Diabetic Drug Seen as More Effective Treatment for Tuberculosis
Scientists have discovered that a drug for treating diabetes - Metformin (MET) - can also be used to boost the efficacy of TB medication without inducing drug resistance.
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- Health Care
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Unilever, P&G Try Tweaked Formulas, Higher Prices for Developing World
Marketers are counting on many more reactions like hers throughout the developing world. For decades, consumer-goods companies expanded in emerging economies through rock-bottom prices and small, affordable pack sizes. At Unilever, the world’s second-largest consumer-goods maker by revenue after Procter & Gamble Co. , that meant one-use sachets of Sunsilk shampoo and 3½-ounce bars of Lifebuoy soap.But now, with the global economy sluggish and emerging-market sales growth waning for the first time in years, companies are employing a developed-world strategy with their poorest customers: Pack more features into basic products and raise their prices.
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- South Asia