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$74m gift from Carlos Slim to genomics center targets Latin Americans
Mexican billionaire and philanthropist Carlos Slim Helú visited the Broad Institute on Monday afternoon to announce a $74 million gift to the genomics center that will advance biomedical research that benefits people in Latin America.
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- Education, Health Care
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Can data-driven solutions change Africa’s agriculture sector?
Despite accounting for 65 percent of the labor force and making up 32 percent of its gross domestic product, Africa’s agricultural sector gets less than one percent of commercial bank loans.
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- Agriculture
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Pyramid scheme: To reach Africa’s poorest consumers, face-to-face contact works best
In the past international firms often took a simplistic view that African consumers aspired to a Western lifestyle. But billboard and newspaper campaigns based on that premise lacked impact. Imported television ads dubbed in local vernacular were scorned. Building brand loyalty among low-income shoppers is a job best done by folk who speak the language and know the lives of people they are selling to.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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AIDS mobile app to be launched
The Indonesia AIDS Coalition (IAC), an NGO with members from AIDS-affected communities, will launch a mobile application on HIV/AIDS information and services.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Asia Pacific
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- public health
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Global Vaccine Community Must Make Major Changes to Reach More Children
As GAVI meets to examine its progress and look ahead, Doctors Without Borders points to needed policy changes
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- Health Care
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- public health
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Microcredit for Americans
Microlending in general has boomed, more than tripling the number of borrowers from 2008 to 2011, according to data collected by the Aspen Institute and Grameen America.
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Why the banker who helped millions of Bangladeshis out of poverty became his country’s enemy number one
Muhammad Yunus is fêted by world leaders, renowned internationally and a national hero at home. All of which makes it harder to explain why the government in his native Bangladesh is trying to destroy him.
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- Asia Pacific
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Medical services through phone on anvil
Can cellphones save lives? Marking a significant shift, Indian healthcare providers are now looking at extending medical services through mobile telephony.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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- public health
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