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Social Enterprises Raise Money Through Direct Public Offerings
Looks like there’s a growing interest among social enterprises in a capital-raising method called Direct Public Offering (DPO).
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Target ‘zero’: Going full force against malaria in Asia
Anti-malaria efforts have been gaining significant traction and progress in the past couple of years, particularly in Africa, with a 54 percent decline in child malaria deaths.
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- Education, Health Care
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- South Asia
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Circumcision cuts risk of HIV infection, experts say
[MELBOURNE] Getting men to choose voluntary circumcision is seen as essential in preventing new cases of HIV infection in heterosexual men and women.
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Ebola risk unheeded as Guinea’s villagers keep on eating fruit bats
Health workers struggle to separate myth from reality of Ebola as residents say abandoning tradition is out of the question
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Meet the Tiny Company Behind the Experimental Antibodies for Ebola
The companies manufacturing an experimental drug treating two American Ebola patients aren't among the largest multinational pharmaceuticals in the world. In fact, leading the effort is a small nine-employee firm in San Diego.
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Mobile tech on the Africa health frontier
Billions have been spent to bring AIDS medicines to patients in Africa, but a technology with just as much lifesaving potential can be had for pennies: the text message.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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‘While the US may be late to the party, it has a lot to offer Africa’
Africa offers US multinationals a compelling trade and investment opportunity thanks to the rapid economic growth rates being experienced across the continent along with burgeoning population growth and increasing urbanisation, according to South African-based Standard Bank.
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OPINION: New World Bank safeguards are pushing more money out the door at the expense of the poor
Last week, the World Bank released a draft of its proposed new environmental and social safeguards.
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