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Bridge Launches with $24 Million in Funding – Bringing Social Investment to Strengthen Rural Finance in the Philippines
Bridge, a financial services company with a new approach to strengthening provincial banking and a commitment to social impact, fully focused on the Philippines, today announced its launch with a $24 million investment from Accion, Bamboo Finance, DEG, FMO and Bridge’s founding principal and chairman, Paul Kocourek. Bridge will provide both deep capability building services and capital to Rural and Thrift banks focused on low income populations, micro and small businesses. Bridge expects to make its first investments by June 2013 and invest all $24 million within 2 years.
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In Democratic Republic of Congo, Women Face Deep-Seated Bias
Anonciata, a 30-something mother of four, survived a brutal raid on her town in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, but not without injury.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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World Allergy Week 2013 Will Focus on the Rising Global Health Problem of Food Allergy: Heaviest Burden is on Children
The World Allergy Organization (WAO) will host its annual World Allergy Week from 8-14 April, 2013, together with its 93 national Member Societies, to address the topic of “Food Allergy – A Rising Global Health Problem,” and its growing burden on children.
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Africa: Advance Market Commitments ‘Promising Solutions’ to Global Health Challenges
An evaluation of the design of the pilot Advance Market Commitment (AMC) for pneumococcal vaccines published today shines a light on the groundbreaking funding mechanism which has already helped vaccinate 13 million children against the world's biggest childhood killer.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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AIDS researchers and global health community ponder a reported cure
AIDS researchers, advocacy organizations and global health officials spent Monday trying to determine whether the report that a baby girl born in Mississippi was cured of the infection is a therapeutic breakthrough or a scientific curiosity.
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Shell-Backed Solar Company Bets on Phone Banking for Africa
M-KOPA Kenya Ltd., backed by a Royal Dutch Shell Plc-funded charity, sees sales of its solar-lighting system that allows users to pay by phone surging 13-fold as mobile operators roll out banking services in Africa.
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- Energy, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Trade-offs in FY14: A case for the Global Fund
Amid an increasingly complex fiscal environment in Washington (i.e. the newly-triggered sequester and the soon-to-expire FY13 continuing resolution), I can’t help but think about the tough trade-offs the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) must be considering as they finalize the 2014 budget request to Congress, expected to be released in mid-March.
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From Andrew Square, taking on the UN for Haiti
Fights against entrenched and powerful forces are sometimes waged from highly improbable places. As a case in point: Brian Concannon is taking on the United Nations from the sanctuary of a quiet former convent in Andrew Square.
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- Latin America
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