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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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- Education, Health Care
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- governance, public health
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Will Hepatitis C Become A New Battleground Between Pharma And Poor Nations?
Will the new crop of hepatitis C treatments form the next battleground between the pharmaceutical industry, poor nations and patient advocates?
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- Health Care
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Japan Joins Fight Against Neglected Diseases
Tens of thousands of new compounds will be screened for effectiveness against critical illnesses
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- Health Care
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66th World Health Assembly: 5 takeaways
The 66th World Health Assembly concluded with a number of resolutions and action plans adopted and approved in the more than week-long conference.
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- Health Care, Investing
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Crowdscience: 10 Must Do’s to Generate Innovative, Catalytic, and Disruptive Ideas… Everytime
Last fall, President Bill Clinton and TIME magazine named the Hult Prize one of the top five ideas changing the world, recognizing its innovative platform that engages millennials worldwide to create viable social enterprises.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- impact investing
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The New Idealism of International Aid
Developing countries are often passive recipients of international health aid. Now they'll be getting the freedom to decide what to do with it.
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- Health Care
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- public health
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Maternal Health Startup Makes History As First ‘Do-It-Yourself’ Benefit Corporation In Michigan
A Michigan startup company founded by University of Michigan students has made legal history by becoming the first “do-it-yourself” benefit corporation in the state. Deborah Burand, a law professor at the University of Michigan and co-founder of the International Transactions Clinic (ITC), reports.
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- Health Care, Impact Assessment
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Behind the Revolution of Diagnosis That Led to the HIV Miracle Baby…and More
"It's a revolution in diagnosis which is leading to a revolution in treatment," says Philippe Douste-Blazy of UNITAID.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- impact investing