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Significant progress has been made in providing treatment to people in Africa suffering from diseases like HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis. Yet an access gap remains. Juergen Reinhardt, of UNIDO, advocates addressing this gap by strengthening Africa’s local pharmaceutical industry.
Quality Medicines for All: The case for more local drug production in AfricaBlog Post
Jennifer Staple-Clark built Unite for Sight from a dorm room-based student group into a world-renowned global non-profit, serving 1,500,000 patients and facilitating over 63,000 sight-restoring surgeries in Ghana, India and Honduras. In Part 2 of our interview, she discusses Unite for Sight’s innovative revenue-generating programs, and how it harnesses its volunteer, research and fundraising efforts to support its mission.
Part 2: From Local to Global: Unite for Sight’s expanding impactBlog Post
Meet three of today’s daring impact entrepreneurs in a Google Hangout broadcasting live here at Nextbillion.net from 1-2 p.m. today (Jan. 30). This Hangout, entitled “Community + Entrepreneurship,” will explore a variety of themes around the importance of community to impact entrepreneurs across Latin America.
Community + Entrepreneurship: How community can strengthen the impact movement – Watch the replay of the Google HangoutBlog Post
Do trained primary care providers reliably provide better care than untrained ones in BoP communities? That’s one of the questions explored by Jishnu Das, Senior Economist in the Development Research Group at The World Bank, in a recent Health Affairs study on provider quality in India. In Part 2 of his interview with CHMI’s Rose Reis, Das talks about the limitations of existing data on BoP health care quality, the lessons of the study - and its surprising findings on the relative quality of untrained providers.
Part 2: What Really Happens at a BoP Clinic?: A new study shows surprising resultsBlog Post
Jishnu Das, Senior Economist in the Development Research Group at The World Bank, recently co-authored a Health Affairs study on quality of primary care in India. In Part 1 of a two-part interview, Rose Reis of CHMI asks Das about the study’s unique methods and disturbing findings.
Part 1: What Really Happens at a BoP Clinic?: A new study shows surprising resultsBlog Post
In part one of this series, we defined Impact Sourcing and some of the factors accelerating its growth. Now, let’s look a little deeper into the two key trends driving interest in the space and whether these can be married through Impact Sourcing in a manner that drives benefit for both the BPO industry, as well as poor and vulnerable communities in emerging economies.
Special Series (Part 2): BPO for the BoP – The need for (and promise of) Impact SourcingNews
The day after it called for military leaders to unblock access to crucial roads in central Mali, the majority of Médecins Sans Frontières’s staff remained on lockdown, unable to provide medical care and services to those in need.
In Central Mali, MSF Staff Bunkers Down, Clamoring for AccessBlog Post
The report emphasizes that working with the communication channels used by BoP women could be an effective way of combating unfamiliarity, misconceptions, and inequitable social dynamics.
Controlling the Family Purse Strings, But Not the Cell Phone: mWomen report examines how low-income women can gain mobile money access
