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First non-surgical circumcision device could slow spread of AIDS in Africa, officials say
Health officials have approved a first-of-its-kind, non-surgical circumcision device hailed as a potential game-changer in the battle to forestall the spread of AIDS in Africa.Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/health/2013/06/02/first-non-surgical-circumcision-device-could-slow-spread-aids-in-africa/#ixzz2VFUOK1lS
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HP deploys virtual health platform to help deliver quality psychiatric care in rural India
As part of HP's continued commitment to making healthcare accessible to people living in remote parts of India, HP today announced the availability of a virtual health technology platform that will enable healthcare professionals to virtually conduct specialist psychiatric consultations with patients.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- South Asia
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Life, Not Death, is Focus of New Health Metrics
This maverick researcher wants to replace conventional death statistics with data on how well we live.
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- Education, Health Care, Impact Assessment
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Changing lives, a hen at a time
Helping hand: Three years ago, four campus students started a revolutionary project that has begun to alleviate poverty in rural areasnyan communities of giving visitors a hen.
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Q&A With Arun Gore Of Gray Ghost Ventures: ‘Social Impact Needs Scale’
Esha Chhabra (@esh2440) chats with Arun Gore, the president and CEO of Gray Ghost Ventures, about the global impact investing movement.
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- Impact Assessment
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- South Asia
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Artha Venture Challenge invites social ventures to access matched funding
Impact investment portal, the Artha Platform, has launched the Artha Venture Challenge (AVC), which will provide ambitious entrepreneurs in India the chance to access up to Rs 25 lakh of equity funding, if matched by the same amount in co-investment.
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- Health Care
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A Hyperrealistic Farmville To Train The World’s Farmers
Farm Defenders, a Gates Foundation-funded game that lets people use incredibly detailed data (down to soil conditions in specific villages) to help people learn agriculture techniques before they actually start planting.
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UN panel’s post-2015 goals: ‘Promising start’ or ‘lacking a roadmap’?
Just hours after the 27-member U.N. High-Level Panel of Eminent Persons on the Post-2015 Development Agenda unveiled its recommendations to replace the MDGs in New York, the thousands of stakeholders involved in the process began to analyze how the framework will affect international cooperation and the delivery of foreign aid until 2030.
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