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How to Turn Big Health Data Into Big Health Action
Mobile technology has revolutionized data-collection tools for health workers, but unless that data creates meaningful change, the “data revolution” will struggle to revolutionize global health systems for patients and providers.
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- Health Care, Technology
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Social Enterprises Get US$112K Worth of Grants at DBS-NUS Event
DBS Foundation and NUS Enterprise have announced the winners of the 2015 DBS-NUS Social Venture Challenge Asia (SVC Asia), adding that they would receive grant monies totalling S$150,000 (US$112,000).
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- Uncategorized
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- South Asia
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Ethiopia Offers 100% FDI to India Healthcare Sector
Ethiopia offered 100 per cent Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) facility to India for setting up hospitals and other healthcare facilities in Ethiopia. The host country will acquire land for Indian entrepreneurs and offer other incentives and tax facilities as well.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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India Scraps Import Duties on AIDS Drugs to Battle Shortage
India has scrapped customs import duties for drugs and test kits used to treat AIDS in an effort to cut prices across the country, as it struggles to cope with an ongoing shortage in its national program to fight the disease.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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Sustainable innovation, minus the sticker shock?
What do solar-powered hearing aids, a subscription service for baby clothes and mobile technology for farmers in East Africa all have in common? For one, they are each finalists in this year’s Sustainia100, an annual study of the top 100 sustainability innovations, published Thursday.
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- Environment, Health Care
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MSF urges India not to ‘cave to pressure’ on affordable drugs
Charity Medecins Sans Frontieres appealed to India on Thursday not to give in to pressure from Europe, the United States and Japan to make it easier for big firms to get patents in the country, potentially blocking the production of cheap generics.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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Acumen makes first cookstove investment with Burn Manufacturing
Acumen announces its new investment in BURN Manufacturing, a cookstove company that aims to transform the lives of Kenyans with its low-cost, energy-efficient design.
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- Energy
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- clean cooking
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In Ethiopia, crop insurance takes root but changes needed – experts
For Ethiopian farmers dealing with the worsening impacts of climate change, small-scale crop insurance can be a lifesaver.
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- Agriculture
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- insurance
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