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Press Release: Global Digital Health Monitor Enables Data-Driven Investments in Digital Health
The Global Digital Health Index (GDHI) launched its Version 2.0 at the World Health Assembly, unveiling the new and improved Global Digital Health Monitor (GDHM).
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- Health Care, Impact Assessment, Investing, Technology
- Region
- Global
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Report: ‘Fully Financing’ HIV Response in Africa Will Save Millions of Lives: UNAIDS
The report demonstrates that failing to mobilise the required funding to end AIDS as a public health threat by 2030 has substantial health, social and economic costs.
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- Education, Health Care, Investing
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- failure, public health
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World Bank Commits $1 Billion to India for Public Healthcare Infrastructure Development
The two projects are supporting India’s decision to increase the resilience and preparedness of the country’s health systems against future pandemics, it said.
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- Health Care
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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Analysis: India’s Healthcare Sector: Here’s How a Massive Transformation Is Underway
The Covid-19 pandemic has triggered a massive transformation in the healthcare space.
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- Health Care, Technology
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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The Link Between WASH and ROI: New Research Shows How Investing in Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Benefits Both Employees and the Bottom Line
There are clear links between water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) and workplace productivity: WASH facilities improve worker health and wellbeing, boosting productivity and business performance. But as Kelly Parsons at WaterAid America explains, there has been a lack of research on how much WASH interventions really impact the bottom line of businesses in emerging markets. She shares results from a new WaterAid report that assessed the ROI of WASH investments at several businesses in India, Bangladesh, Kenya and Tanzania, and discusses how to maximize the impact of these interventions.
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Press Release: AIDS Healthcare Foundation Pledges $10 Million to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
This announcement comes ahead of the Seventh Replenishment of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria in New York City on Sept. 21.
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- Finance, Health Care
- Region
- Global
- Tags
- public health
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Analysis: Impact Investment: Is Standardization Possible — Or Desirable?
As the impact investing sector approaches an inflection point, the time is ripe to bring some structure to the field.
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- Impact Assessment
- Region
- Global
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Nonprofits Launch $100 Million Plan to Support Local Health Workers Mostly in Africa
A new philanthropic project hopes to invest $100 million in 10 countries, mostly in Africa, by 2030 to support 200,000 community health workers.
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- Health Care
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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