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Experts tell us that a key to achieving global health is focus. As we’ve seen this week with the U.S. government shutdown, the bigger the organization, the harder it is to focus. But as Kyle Poplin argues in this Roundup post, with about 800 days left to meet the Millennium Development Goal of reducing child and maternal deaths across the planet, global health organizations are working through obstacles far greater than politics.
Weekly Roundup – 10/4/13: Global health can’t afford a shutdownNews
An emerging movement of global leaders of government, civil society and finance is urging United Nations member states, as they meet in New York, to include universal health coverage (UHC) in the next round of global goals for economic development, just as similar reforms take root in the US.
Africa: Global Movement Emerges for Universal Health CoverageBlog Post
Partnership aims to increase access to health care worldwide by identifying and spreading the word about promising innovations. Next up, a study tour of four forward-thinking firms in India.
Process, Not Product: How lessons from India can transform health care across bordersBlog Post
Sasha Dichter is the Chief Innovation Officer at Acumen, a noted speaker and blogger - and a panelist at the William Davidson Institute’s upcoming BoP Summit on Oct. 21-23. He spoke with NextBillion Financial Innovation recently about Acumen’s approach to impact investing, growth and challenges in the sector, and the need for more risk taking and innovation.
The Future of Impact Investing: A conversation with Sasha Dichter, Acumen’s Chief Innovation OfficerNews
In the light of decreasing motivation to introduce microinsurance products, it’s time to redefine the concept.
Micro Insurance, Macro ProblemsBlog Post
Professional conferences are usually heavy on information and light on emotion. But participants at Friday’s Mobile Money conference were treated to as impassioned a debate as you’re likely to see in a roomful of financial services practitioners and academics. The combatants: a banker and a telco representative competing in the mobile financial services space in Africa.
Bank vs. Telco: The simmering mobile money standoffBlog Post
About 840 million people in India - or 72 percent of the total population of 1.2 billion - are rural. For these 840 million people, health care is basically inaccessible. A few innovative companies are out to change that.
Game-changing Partnerships: Health care companies in rural India finding ways to complement each otherNews
Ghana this year will begin a demonstration project vaccinating girls against human papillomavirus (HPV). The HPV is the leading cause of cervical cancer, which is the biggest cancer killer of women on the African continent.President John Mahama revealed this in New York on Tuesday, when Ghana hosted a side event at the ongoing UN General Assembly, in collaboration with the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation (GAVI) and the Global Fund.
Ghana to vaccinate girls against cervical cancer – Mahama
