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Vaccination Reminder Band Tipped to Boost Global Child Inoculation Rates
Ankle band that changes colour to remind parents when vaccines are due comes through trials in Pakistan.
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- South Asia
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Eight Months on, Two Charts Raise Questions About India’s Financial Inclusion Scheme
Two of every three bank accounts opened under Jan Dhan Yojana have zero balance. Not a single insurance claim was settled during the last year.
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As WHO Drafts Its Global Health Strategies, a Need to Reconsider Viral Hepatitis Response
The World Health Organization recently announced that it was seeking input on the three global health sector strategies — HIV and AIDS, viral hepatitis and sexually transmitted infection — it was drafting until April 30. The strategies, which will cover 2016-2021, will be finalized at the 69th World Health Assembly in 2016.
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Viewpoint: Mudra Bank Is Just What India’s Microfinance Sector Needed
Mudra Bank can provide some cohesion and impetus to this fragmented space, besides the right kind of regulation.
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More Thinking About Contest Philanthropy: Market-Based Approaches
In the wake of the Council on Foundation’s modification of its original plan to host a “pitch competition” at its annual meeting this year, two people associated with the Case Foundation wrote a blog post on the foundation’s website to defend the notion of nonprofits “playing by market-based approaches” or rules—as though they don’t all the time because of the structure of the U.S. economy. Trying to make their point that the criticism of the COF competition was a nonprofit reaction against the wisdom of “markets…[that] have this uncanny way of being candid, sending demand signals that companies need to pay attention and adapt to in order to thrive, if not survive,” the two authors stretched some points that were made in the criticism of the COF program.
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Press Release: Banco Santander Announces Commitment to Launch Social Economy Initiative With Georgetown University
Banco Santander, through Santander Universities, signed today a Memorandum of Understanding with Georgetown University, to support a new initiative on the social economy. The initiative will focus on issues of social banking, social finance, and social entrepreneurship. This Memorandum was signed by Ana Botin, Executive Chairman of Banco Santander and John DeGioia, President of Georgetown University.
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Indian E-Commerce Giant Snapdeal Buys Bill Payment Service FreeCharge
Snapdeal, the SoftBank- and eBay-backed online commerce company in India, has completed what it called “one of the biggest acquisitions in the history of the internet industry in India” after it announced the acquisition of online transaction serviceFreeCharge.
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- South Asia
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Could a Test for Malaria Be as Easy as a Breathalyzer?
More than half a million people die of malaria every year, most of them children under the age of five in Africa. And in the areas where it is most endemic, it remains relatively expensive to diagnose. But a group of scientists in Missouri are working on a groundbreaking method to test for the disease that, if successful, could save time, money, and most importantly, lives.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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