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Reinvent Maternal Health: It’s a Challenge
ABC News, The Lemelson Foundation, and Duke Global Health Institute recently teamed up to launch the Reinventing Maternal Health challenge. Targeted to university students, this challenge seeks to find the most innovative, impactful idea that will prevent thousands of women from dying in childbirth across the globe.
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Africa Election Watch 2011: Benin Growing Pains for a Young Democracy
A day after the election in volatile Niger (where Seini Oumarou has emerged the winner) came the presidential election in one of the "star" democracies on the African continent. On March 13, the West African nation Benin went to the polls to continue a democracy born of dictatorship two decades ago. As the votes are counted, a look at the stakes.
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Africa Election Watch 2011: Niger
One of the biggest determinants of living standards for those at the base of the pyramid too often receives scant attention in the Western press: a presidential election. In 2011, 14 countries in sub-Saharan Africa will hold presidential elections. The next presidential election in Africa will take place in Niger, on March 12.
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The Healthcare Infrastructure Conundrum
The new clinic is opening today. The town council, mayor, and other bureaucrats have been summoned. The company promoting the new chain of rural health clinics has sent its CEO, and its board chair, who has come from thousands of miles away in the west. The garlands have been prepared; chairs and a tent have been set up. This is progress.
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Advancing Healthcare With the BoP Series: Dial 104 for Health
A housewife in rural Andhra Pradesh, India has persistent lower back pain. Like 86 percent of other villages in AP, hers lies more than 3 km from the nearest hospital. Before 2007, she would, like most rural residents, be resigned to seeing a local, untrained doctor when her pain worsened. Today, she simply dials 104 from her mobile phone.
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Healthcare With the BoP Series: Staying Out of the Medical Poverty Trap In Pakistan
An adolescent golf champion who grew up to be Pakistan?s first female cardiologist, Sania Nishtar wields influence in forums from the World Health Organization to the Clinton Global Initiative. Through her NGO, Heartfile, she has honed in on one critical barrier to health delivery for the poor: serious shortfalls in financing.
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Advancing Healthcare With the BoP: Why We Hope to Hear from You
Starting Feb. 21, NextBillion, with help from Ashoka and the Center for Health Market Innovations, will begin a special series: Advancing Healthcare With the BoP. In it, we hope to bring you success stories from the field on what is making a lasting impact in market-based solutions to healthcare delivery. But, we also need the help of our readers!
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Beleza Natural: Valuing Brazilian Women’s Self-Esteem
Beleza Natural is much more than a one-off beauty parlor. Founded in 1993, the company began operating in a basement in the suburbs of Rio de Janeiro. After less than 20 years in business, Beleza Natural has grown to 80,000 customers a month, and has become a national archetype for service and access for a clientele living at base of the pyramid.
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