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Aavishkaar in list of top global impact investors
Two prestigious US universities have selected social venture capital firm Aavishkaar Venture Management Services and its flagship fund, Aavishkaar India Micro Venture Capital Fund, as among the world's top global impact investors.
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7 Tips from the six winners of the World Summit Awards in healthcare and environmental solutions
Thanks to mobiles and social media, healthcare and environmental solutions are emerging in the consumer and citizen space, and not just in hospital enterprise IT and meteorological centres.
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Cleaner cookstoves can boost health and slow global warming
World Bank report calls for action to cut common pollutants such as soot, which could save millions of lives every year
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Health tourism being made competitive in India
The Centre is taking all steps to make the Indian health tourism industry globally competitive
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Eight years after the last outbreak in 2005, polio is once again ravaging the Horn of Africa
Since May health authorities have reported 191 cases: 174 in Somalia, 14 in north-eastern Kenya and three in Ethiopia.
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The risk with the Global Fund’s new TB strategy
Groups advocating for TB elimination are hailing a new Global Fund proposed strategy that could raise coverage of the disease’s treatment, but an expert warns it entails some risks.
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Qatar-based social initiative, Silatech hosts US events on innovative entrepreneurship
Founded by HH Sheikha Moza bint Nasser,Silatech has hosted two major events in the US with a view to increasing awareness and informing US policy towards youth in the Arab world.
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Morgan Stanley Pledges $1 Billion in Sustainable Investing Push
The biggest U.S. banks have sought to combine their abilities of advising companies and allocating capital with socially minded pursuits in the wake of public outrage and government rescues resulting from the financial crisis
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