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India Is Training ‘Quacks’ to Do Real Medicine. This Is Why
Aditya Bandopadhyay has treated the sick for more than twenty years. He works in the village of Salbadra, in the state of West Bengal, India. He has no degree in medicine.
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Grameen Foundation Announces Steve Hollingworth As New CEO
The Board of Directors of Grameen Foundation announced today the selection of its next president and chief executive officer (CEO) Steven L. Hollingworth, a distinguished leader in the field of poverty eradication. He has been the chief executive officer of Freedom from Hunger since 2011, where he has been a transformative leader focusing the organization on the intersection of poverty, financial services, hunger and health in partnership with other organizations.
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PRESS RELEASE: New White Paper – Investing for Positive Impact on Women
A group of investors has released a new white paper, Investing for Positive Impact on Women: Integrating Gender into Total Portfolio Activation. The paper was prepared by Croatan Institute with the guidance and close collaboration of Global Fund for Women, Root Capital, Thirty Percent Coalition, and Trillium Asset Management.
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- Investing
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BlackRock to promote climate bonds in impact investment drive
World's largest asset manager signs up to Climate Bonds Initiative in bid to promote green bonds
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Moving Beyond Microcredit
Microfinance pioneer Muhammad Yunus was driven by the idea that many of the world’s poor are entrepreneurs who could bootstrap their way out of poverty if only they had access to startup capital. But in practice, loan recipients are often already in the middle class, at least relative to local standards. And Yunus did not anticipate the practice becoming a commercial one, which he now blames for higher interest rates.
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Technology Alone Is Not the Answer in Healthcare
“A technology only solution isn’t going to get us anywhere,” says Shelly Saxena. He’s referring to the growing number of social enterprises and development initiatives that use mobile phones and telemedicine to deliver healthcare in India.
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- Health Care, Technology
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Pfizer Partners With South Africa to Produce Pneumococcal Vaccine
Global pharmaceutical company, Pfizer, has partnered with South Africa's Biovac Institute to produce a potentially life-saving pneumonia vaccine for infants, a cabinet minister said on Tuesday.
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South Africa Mulls Allowing Generics for AbbVie HIV Drug
South Africa's government is looking into a recommendation by medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres to allow generic versions of HIV drug Lopinavir after shortages resulted in interruptions to some treatments in the country with the highest number of infections by the virus.
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