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How social entrepreneurs are inspiring change across Africa
Leadership programmes are facilitating social enterprise projects that could be a viable alternative to aid
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- Impact Assessment
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Global Health Threat Seen in Overuse of Antibiotics on Chinese Pig Farms
As Europe continues to recoil at the “horseburger” scandal, focusing minds on the risks in long food-production chains, a new study has found that high use of antibiotics in Chinese pig farms is producing antibiotic-resistant genes that pose “a potential worldwide human health risk.”
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- Health Care
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- Asia Pacific
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If you build it
A scheme to promote working-class home ownership is off to a good start
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- Latin America
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Africa calling: rewarding patient investors
In the 1970s, it was Idi Amin’s expulsion of Asians from Uganda. In 1980s, it was a malnourished child in Ethiopia, struggling just to stand up. In the 1990s, it was piles of mutilated corpses in Rwanda. For many in the west, these remain the defining images of Africa – despots, disasters and despair.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Put the Social Before the Enterprise (Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Would)
How do you identify the entrepreneurs who are going to create meaningful social impact? Look for the ones who, above all else, put their social missions first.
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Decentralise malaria diagnosis and treatment in Africa
The most effective way to overcome the key challenge of access is to focus on community health workers – if people can't come to a health facility, take the health facility to people
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- public health
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Doctors Struggling to Fight ‘Totally Drug-Resistant’ Tuberculosis in South Africa
In a patient's fight against tuberculosis—the bacterial lung disease that kills more people annually than any infectious disease besides HIV— doctors have more than 10 drugs from which to choose. Most of those didn't work for Uvistra Naidoo, a South African doctor who contracted the disease in his clinic. For those who contract the disease now, maybe none of them will.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Obama in SOTU: Eradicate extreme poverty in 20 years
In a Feb. 12 speech focused on improving the lot of the U.S. middle class, Obama also vowed to help stabilize countries such as Yemen, Libya, Somalia and Mali, and help to spread democracy from the Middle East to South-East Asia.
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- Impact Assessment
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- Sub-Saharan Africa