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Crowdfunding Platform Aims to Break Cycle of Poverty for Adolescent Girls
A new social enterprise is setting its sights on breaking the cycle of poverty for girls in the developing world, by giving them the opportunity to go to high school through the helping hand of crowdfunding.
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Gates Foundation forms new health partnerships in South Africa
THE Medical Research Council (MRC) and the University of Cape Town (UCT) on Tuesday announced two new partnerships with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation aimed at finding new tools to fight HIV, tuberculosis (TB) and malaria.
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Kenya gets boost in the the fight against non-communicable diseases
The fight against non-communicable diseases in Kenya is set to go a notch higher with the decision by the Novartis Pharma of Switzerland to diversify its drug products portfolio n the Kenyan market.
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Achieving Global Health Equality Within a Generation
When looking at the broad sweep of human history, people's health status was relatively similar across the world. Death rates for mothers and children were high, life expectancy was short, and health status was poor. This was the universal condition.Only in the past two centuries have we seen the world diverge.
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Healthcare tech is hot for venture capitalists
From wearables like wristbands that keep track of your physical activity to wireless weighing machines that help you track your weight fluctuations, technology is getting into healthcare with an eye firmly on the consumer.
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- Health Care, Investing
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The challenges of setting up a social investment fund
Today Nesta launch their first impact investment funds. Its director of impact investments outlines the challenges they faced.
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Bitcoin’s bit part for mobile money
From central bankers and academics to speculators, everyone is getting over-excited about Bitcoin. Everyone that is apart from consumers, very few of whom have first-hand experience of buying actual goods with the virtual currency.
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3 Myths That Block Access to the Poor
Every year The Gates Foundation releases an annual letter, this is 2014 where Bill Gates states "By 2035, there will be almost no poor countries left in the world."
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- Education, Health Care
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