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Kiva Partners with Vittana to Bolster its Student Loans Program
Kiva is one of the microfinance pioneers, helping entrepreneurs and small businesses secure loans from backers who give as little as $25. The platform, which has been around since 2005, has collected over $500 million in loans from its million-strong community.
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BlackBerry plans mobile money services
Canadian smartphone maker Blackberry sees India as a key market for launching its mobile money services. The company plans to launch money transfer services on the Blackberry Messenger platform in partnership with local banks.
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Success in Impact Investing Through Policy Symbiosis
Some may be surprised to hear it, but impact investing would barely exist -- certainly not at its current, modest scale -- but for the support and partnership of government. Government is ubiquitous in all economies, to be sure. But in the types of underserved markets in which impact investors operate, the role of public policy is profound.
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Mobile Phones, Apps, Throw Lifeline to Shunned Sufferers of Brain and Mental Disorders in Remote World Corners
Grand Challenges Canada today offers funding of up to $270,000 to 21 global mental health projects worldwide and up to $2 million to an innovative program in India designed to improve the quality of mental health patient treatment and end reported abuses.
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‘Deepening’ medical crisis in Afghanistan
Despite years of aid, medical care in Afghanistan remains severely limited as casualty rates from violence climb, humanitarian organisation Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) warns in a report.
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UPMC and TeleChikitsa tie up to bring cutting edge medicine to India
University of Pittsburgh Schools of the Health Sciences or UPMC is all set to make a foray into Indian healthcare. The leading medical center based out of the US has tied up with India’s TeleChikitsa Ventures, based in Bangalore with an aim to provide leading and cutting edge healthcare to India. As a part of their project UPMC is all set to aid India and Afghanistan with their healthcare needs. With an aim to spread their brand overseas, UPMC will use video equipment to examine patients, second opinions and consultations to patients.
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Try digital condom for electrifying sex
Considering how important they are to modern society and how little people like wearing the things, it's a wonder that the design of the condom has barely changed over hundreds of years. The drawback of having a prophylactic that is so widely disliked has even inspired the Gates Foundation to make the invention of "the Next Generation of Condom" one of their Grand Challenges in Global Health — a research initiative designed to find solutions to 15 global health problems.
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Vaccines to be manufactured locally – President
Local pharmaceutical companies have benefited from Government funding amounting to Gh¢50 million to manufacture Anti-Retroviral Drugs (ARVs) in the country. This was announced by President John Mahama when he delivered the State of the Nation Address to Parliament on Tuesday.
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