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Poverty is still one of the driving forces behind ill health, a lack of access to healthcare and medicines and consistent underdevelopment.
We can’t hope to solve global ills without action against povertyNews
Financial inclusion is now one of the most talked about agendas towards holistic development of the country. With the thrust towards financial inclusion by the Narendra Modi government to achieve all round growth of society, micro insurance is poised to play an important role in it.
Micro Insurance: A Tool for Financial InclusionNews
To many Americans, whose multi-trillion dollar government has just executed a hostile takeover of the healthcare industry, the future of care looks like lawyer-laden socialized medicine in General Motors GM -1.68%-style hospital factories.
The Coming Global Boom in Private HealthcareBlog Post
With 15 million users and 2 million transaction per day, Safaricom has achieved historic success with its M-PESA mobile money product in Kenya. It has also compiled a historic amount of data, and the granularity is electrifying. This data would be a treasure trove to financial inclusion actors, says James Schintz of MIX, in an impassioned plea for Safaricom to engage in "data philanthropy."
NexThought Monday – 12/8/14: Safaricom, share your M-PESA data!: Why we need data philanthropy in KenyaBlog Post
In the raging sea that is Twitter, here are a few Tweets that stuck in our filter this past week.
Twitter Top Ten for 12-07-14: Our favorited Tweets of the week pastNews
Christine Nabbanja is a 22-year-old, fourth year, biomedical engineering student at Makerere University. She is also part of a group of five innovative students, teamed up to offer global health solutions to the world. Their innovation is an automatic switch for an electrical suction pump. Suctions are used to clear the airway of blood, saliva, vomit or other secretions so that a patient can breathe during respiratory failure or surgery.
Automated Medical Equipment Could Save Many LivesNews
When you buy milk in America, it generally comes from farmers with hundreds of cows. They do their own milking with mechanized equipment, and, generally, their own pasteurization and bottling. In Kenya, it's different. About 80% of the country's milk comes from small-scale farmers with a few cows, who milk by-hand. They don't do bottling and, instead of trucks to get to market, they go by bike or foot.
A New Milk Can for The Developing World, Funded by Bill GatesBlog Post
In the first of a two-part post, the author says tiered pricing is feasible when markets are separable and when the seller exerts significant power over pricing, such as when there is limited or no competition due to patent protection, data exclusivity or other barriers to market entry. But there are several reasons tiered pricing can be both ethically and practically problematic for pharmaceuticals.
NexThought Monday – The Limits of Tiered Pricing in Improving Access to Medicine: Harvard’s Suerie Moon looks at theoretical and empirical drawbacks
