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How Companies and NGOs Can Work Together to Tackle Food Security
While the year of agriculture and nutrition, as declared by the African Union, may be over, those issues will undoubtedly remain top development priorities and can present unique opportunities for collaboration with business.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- nutrition
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Malaria Vaccine? Genetic Engineering Turns Parasite Into Vaccine Candidate
Malaria is one of the Great Diseases. This mosquito-borne illness killed some 627,000 people in 2012, most of them children in sub-Saharan Africa. Efforts in the last decade have cut mortality rates for the disease by an impressive 45 percent, but malaria continues to be a massive public health burden wherever it persists.
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- Health Care
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- vaccines
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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
- Region
- 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
- Region
- 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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- Uncategorized