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AIDS mobile app to be launched
The Indonesia AIDS Coalition (IAC), an NGO with members from AIDS-affected communities, will launch a mobile application on HIV/AIDS information and services.
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Global Vaccine Community Must Make Major Changes to Reach More Children
As GAVI meets to examine its progress and look ahead, Doctors Without Borders points to needed policy changes
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Microcredit for Americans
Microlending in general has boomed, more than tripling the number of borrowers from 2008 to 2011, according to data collected by the Aspen Institute and Grameen America.
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Why the banker who helped millions of Bangladeshis out of poverty became his country’s enemy number one
Muhammad Yunus is fêted by world leaders, renowned internationally and a national hero at home. All of which makes it harder to explain why the government in his native Bangladesh is trying to destroy him.
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Medical services through phone on anvil
Can cellphones save lives? Marking a significant shift, Indian healthcare providers are now looking at extending medical services through mobile telephony.
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- South Asia
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Global Fund boss upbeat about funding future
The Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria aims to find fifteen-billion dollars by December, as part of its replenishment efforts.
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Gate Global Impact Partners With U.N. To Capitalize Social Entrepreneurs
Gate Global Impact announced at the recent United Nations Global Compact Leaders Summit a plan to feature select companies from the U.N.’s soon-to-be-launched Social Enterprise Action Hub on the Gate Global Impact GATEWAY Platform, a crowdfunding platform for social entrepreneurs to pitch impact investors.
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The Bangladesh poor selling organs to pay debts
Millions of rural Bangladeshis, grow up facing a life of hardship. In an attempt to alleviate poverty, countless numbers take on debt with microcredit lenders, only to find themselves in a difficult situation when they are unable to repay the loan.
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