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Announcing NextBillion’s Most Influential Posts of 2016
Congratulations to the three winners of NextBillion’s “Most Influential Post of 2016” contest. Each winner brought a unique mixture of topicality, engaging writing and thought-provoking analysis to their posts, which tackled some of the most important issues facing the social business world in the past year.
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- Entrepreneurship, Health Care, NextBillion Originals
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A vision for WHO for 2017 and beyond
As I turn the calendar page to January 2017, I am keen to look ahead and examine our health challenges for the coming year and decade - challenges with goals and targets which have been well defined in our United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and especially, in the ‘health goal’ or SDG 3 - Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages.
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- Health Care
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The year in review: Insights into the good, the bad and the ugly
This year ends in uncertain times, for the world’s political order, the fate of a damaged planet, the seemingly boundless human suffering experienced by civilians and health care staff in war zones, and the continuing failure of antibiotics that once gave medicine its “miracle” cures.
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- Health Care
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3 highlights about Shyam Sunder Bedekar’s Rs 2.5 sanitary pad and incinerator social enterprise
Rural innovations have something beautiful about them. Solutions made by innovators who are in sync with the surroundings and serving the need of the hour. Shyam Sunder Bedekar’s Sakhi pads and the low-cost incinerator make one such example that have been written about widely. YourStory also covered the story in November and it has been very well received by readers.
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- Entrepreneurship, Health Care
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- South Asia
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Fred Hutch announces $1M in grants to commercialize cutting-edge cancer and HIV research
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, which has spun-out companies such as Juno Therapeutics and Nohla Therapeutics in recent years, is continuing its aggressive push to commercialize more of its research. The non-profit Seattle-based organization today announced $1 million in funding from its newly-formed Evergreen Fund for eight research projects.
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- Health Care
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- global health, healthcare, research
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PepsiCo takes on Coca-Cola with Latin American water plan
PepsiCo has announced it will restore and protect a handful of watersheds in Latin American countries in which it operates, including Mexico, Brazil, Colombia and Guatemala.
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- Environment, Health Care
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- Latin America
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- environment, global health, healthcare, water
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Healthcare organizations to set pace for blockchain adoption in 2017 – IBM Institute for Business Value
In a new survey, IBM Institute for Business Value has found that healthcare organizations are moving fast in the sphere of blockchain adoption, seemingly faster than the financial industry.
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- Health Care
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Pharmaceutical sector hiring set for double-digit growth
As some industries brace for slow hiring in the coming months, the Indian pharmaceutical sector’s recruitment numbers are poised to continue growing in double digits next year as health awareness improves and lifespans increase.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia