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The Power of One: An Anti-Malaria Campaign With Some Powerful Partners
An all-star team--including Twitter, a former Apple marketing executive, the people who ran Obama’s online campaign, drug companies, and more--are coming together with Malaria No More to make a huge push to stop one of the most deadly diseases in the world.
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- Health Care
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Four Reasons Doctors Worry About Social Media
Continuous social media exposure to the imaginative and the extraordinary can also be a bit deceptive.
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Superbug drug fight in danger with just four pharmaceutical firms left making antibiotics, report says
The number of new antibiotics being developed is “alarmingly low,” according to a new report by the Infectious Diseases Society of America.
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Innovative finance and its promise for global health
Few global health institutions focus as much on innovative finance as UNITAID.
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IFC, Others Invest $20m In Ghanaian Microfinance Bank
The IFC, the German Investment and Development Corporation (DEG), and the African Capitalisation Fund (ACF) have together invested about GH¢46 million ($20 million) into one of Ghana’s leading microfinance banks, UT Bank.
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Ventureburn talks entrepreneurship with Omidyar Network Africa’s Malik Fal
Right around the time Omidyar Network released its Accelerating Entrepreneurship in Africa report, we had an opportunity to talk to Malik Fal, managing director of Omidyar Network Africa.
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Conscious Business, Crowdfunding and Social Impact Investing
Crowdfunding thought leader Rose Spinelli and Richard Branson Award Winner Shayan Nahrvar, CEO of Raise5.com, were ready to talk about funding in the new capitalism at the Conscious Business Network last week.
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The Globalization of Giving
When Stanford Social Innovation Review (SSIR) was first conceived in Silicon Valley a decade ago, newly wealthy, problem-focused entrepreneurs had seized the opportunity to use their knowledge, networks, and finances to advance the social good globally.
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