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Prices double as private vaccines flood market
NEW DELHI: The Universal Immunisation Programme (UIP) seems to have slipped almost entirely into the grip of the private sector as the government's vaccine institutes that were reopened in February 2010 after being shut down two years ago are yet to contribute in any significant way. In the process, the cost of most vaccines has more than doubled since 2006-07.
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NIC to launch Rs 5,000 cr VC fund for innovation: Pitroda
The fund will support enterprises which drive change at the bottom of the economic pyramid
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- South Asia
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Lok Capital buys minority stake in social enterprise Drishti
Firm will use funds to service underserved geographies of Karnataka
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- Health Care, Investing
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- South Asia
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Disease burden links ecology to economic growth
A NEW study in the open access journal PLOS Biology, finds that vector-borne and parasitic diseases have substantial effects on economic development across the globe, and are major drivers of differences in income between tropical and temperate countries.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- public health
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T cell ‘atlas’ paves way for new vaccines
COLUMBIA U. (US) — The first-ever “atlas” of immune cells in the human body may lead to new vaccine strategies and immunotherapies.
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Maybe an accelerator at sea isn’t so ‘Unreasonable’ after all
11 entrepreneurs will set sail on Unreasonable at Sea's accelerator with the goal to break into the global market to solve the world's most pressing problems with the backing of some of the best tech minds that the industry has to offer.
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- incubators
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Unitus Seed Fund lands $8 Million for BoP Startups from Leading Early-stage Investors
Investment includes backing of Vinod Khosla, Mohandas Pai, Mike Murray and others
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India’s shift to inclusive innovation is ‘a model to follow’
A leading Indian scientist and policymaker is calling on developing countries to adopt an "emerging paradigm" of affordable, less complex and inclusive innovation to promote development and cut poverty.
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