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Nearly a Billion People Still Defecate Outdoors. Here’s Why.
The problem isn’t just a lack of toilets—it’s a lack of toilets that people want to use. The result: millions of deaths and disease-stunted lives.
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- Health Care
- Region
- South Asia
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- Global Goals, global health, India, sanitation, SDGs, toilets
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What’s So Special About a Golden Banana?
Scientists at Queensland University (QUT) of Technology in Australia have announced a way to use fruit as a vehicle for solving the world's Vitamin A deficiency problem: They’ve developed the genes required to produce what they call “golden bananas.”
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- Health Care
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Social Impact Incentives: A New Solution for Blended Finance
In just six years, social enterprise Clínicas del Azúcar has grown into the largest private provider of specialized diabetes care in Mexico, but faces an almost constant challenge to balance its financial and social performance. That's where social impact incentives (SIINC) come into play. A new solution for blended finance, SIINCs align profitability with social impact by paying social enterprises directly for proven social outcomes.
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- Energy, Entrepreneurship, Health Care, Investing, Technology
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The Side Effect Of That New Malaria Drug? American Jobs
The researchers found that between 2007 and 2015, the U.S. government invested $14 billion in global health research and development. And that created 200,000 new American jobs and returned $33 billion to the U.S. economy.
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- Health Care
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Google releases 20 million mosquitos in Fresno, California
The so-called Debug Project by Alphabet’s life-sciences unit has set itself a lofty goal: “To reduce the devastating global health impact that disease-carrying mosquitoes inflict on people around the world.”
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- Health Care
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- North America
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After Successful Bed Net Campaigns in Ghana, Creating A Thriving, Sustainable Commercial Market
he number of malaria cases on the continent has dropped, with 6.8 million lives saved since 2000. Sixty percent of that can be attributed to insecticide-treated bed nets. It’s the single most-effective tool against malaria.
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- Health Care
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Addressing Eye Care in Emerging Markets with Blended Finance
WHO estimates that 39 million people suffer from blindness, more than half of them due to cataracts, and more than 90 percent of blind people live in the developing world. Cataracts are often curable but the traditional surgery is expensive. Convergence is supporting GlobalVision's plan to build on the affordable eye model that Aravind pioneered in India and establish a network of 60 eye care hospitals in emerging markets over the next 10 years, borrowing techniques from the microfinance sector.
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- Entrepreneurship, Health Care, Investing, Technology
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Global health price tag could be $371 billion a year by 2030, WHO says
In a best case scenario of increasing investment to meet the goals, some 97 million premature deaths could be prevented between now and 2030, and up to 8.4 years of life expectancy could be added in some countries, the WHO said in report.
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- Health Care
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- global development, Global Goals, global health, SDGs, UNDP, WHO
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