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AddressHealth bags global award for innovation in tele-enabled school health centres for urban poor
AddressHealth, India’s first paediatric primary healthcare network, has won the prestigious ‘Stars in Global Health’ grant competition from Grand Challenges Canada. The company bagged the honours for its innovative model to provide comprehensive healthcare to children in low income groups through tele-enabled school health centres.
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India might get sick before it gets rich: Krishna Kumar
Interview with Vice-chairman and MD, Philips India
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- South Asia
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India next on Abbott’s global rebranding map
In a bid to reach out and engage with consumers more, the $22-billion US healthcare major Abbott is redefining its corporate identity, with India becoming one of the first markets after the US and Brazil where the change is being rolled out.
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- Health Care
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Facebook And Alibaba Will Turn The World’s Poor Into Entrepreneurs. Xiaomi Will Sell Them Smartphones
Facebook and Alibaba Group Holding (NYSE:BABA) Limited are on a new mission: solve world poverty by helping more than 4 billion people from low-income countries get access to the Internet — and engage in e-tailing entrepreneurship.
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- Technology
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PRESS RELEASE: China enters the era of social impact investing
The 13th Social Enterprise Conference at Columbia Business School was on October 31st. The results of a study on social impact investing in China were released for the first time in history. It is the first time that China has formally dispatched a group to attend a social enterprise conference at Columbia University
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- Impact Assessment
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- Asia Pacific
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Indian start-up to enable bank transactions via kirana stores
Novopay uses Aadhaar biometric scanner for dealings
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USAID encourages private sector participation in new healthcare program
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) on Friday launched its Healthy Markets program, an initiative to encourage the investment of local private sector and foster growth of a commercial market, in Ho Chi Minh City.
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Bill Gates to give $500 million for malaria, other diseases
US philanthropist Bill Gates on Sunday announced he will donate over $500 million to fight malaria and other infectious diseases in the developing world, saying the Ebola outbreak is a call to action.
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- Health Care
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