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Fish 2.0: A Competition That Connects Investors With Sustainable Seafood Businesses
A new breed of investors is starting to shape business growth across the globe.
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- Agriculture, Environment
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- impact investing
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Financial firms turn focus on people living with HIV/AIDS
Previously, people used to equate HIV/AIDS to a death sentence.
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- Health Care
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Road deaths, cancer and diabetes becoming Africa’s hidden epidemics
Urbanisation accelerating rise in health problems, while more cars on the road are pushing up accident rates, says World Bank
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- Health Care
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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‘Two-thirds of injections in India unsafe’
With an aim to protect patients from infections caused by use of unsafe injections, Indian Academy of Paediatrics (IAP) launched Safe Injection Environment programme in the city on Sunday, where they talked about the importance of safe injection practices.
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- Health Care
- Region
- South Asia
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East Africa: The Superfood With the Potential to Save Hundreds and Thousands of Children’s Lives
Imagine a food that is free, nutritious and has the potential to save thousands of children's lives.
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- Health Care
- Region
- North Africa & Near East
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Open development and social impact bonds: rethinking healthcare delivery
By incentivising investment through payment on results, and by making information open, local entrepreneurs can fill the gaps and help deliver much needed services
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- Health Care, Impact Assessment
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- impact bonds
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Malaria resurgence in Africa has health authorities scrambling for new weapons
Could the much-maligned DDT become the new pesticide of choice?
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- Health Care
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Banker Saves 20,000 From Nepal to Uganda With Her Profits
Amid the cloying dust, blaring car horns and beggars’ wails that echo through the ancient streets of Kathmandu, Nepal, a familiar sound emerges: the strains of pop star Psy’s “Gangnam Style.”
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- Impact Assessment
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