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Innovation Forward and Backward: BRAC adapts its microcredit model to water, sanitation and hygiene
Innovators often focus on things that are radically new, when it’s sometimes preferable to adapt proven concepts to new spaces. BRAC has long been helping people in BoP communities form village organizations to obtain microcredit. Now it has applied this model to the problems of water, sanitation and hygiene through the WASH program. Babar Kabir, senior director of the program, explains its approach.
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World Allergy Week 2013 Will Focus on the Rising Global Health Problem of Food Allergy: Heaviest Burden is on Children
The World Allergy Organization (WAO) will host its annual World Allergy Week from 8-14 April, 2013, together with its 93 national Member Societies, to address the topic of “Food Allergy – A Rising Global Health Problem,” and its growing burden on children.
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Africa: Advance Market Commitments ‘Promising Solutions’ to Global Health Challenges
An evaluation of the design of the pilot Advance Market Commitment (AMC) for pneumococcal vaccines published today shines a light on the groundbreaking funding mechanism which has already helped vaccinate 13 million children against the world's biggest childhood killer.
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AIDS researchers and global health community ponder a reported cure
AIDS researchers, advocacy organizations and global health officials spent Monday trying to determine whether the report that a baby girl born in Mississippi was cured of the infection is a therapeutic breakthrough or a scientific curiosity.
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“The Female Sanitary Revolution”: Disruptive innovations break taboos to promote women’s health
Every 28 days across the globe, half the world’s population menstruates. This presents a major challenge for millions of girls and women in BoP countries who can’t afford sanitary napkins. Cheaper alternatives like newspaper or rags are ineffective and unhygienic, often leading to health risks and absences at school or work. Fortunately, new innovations promise to lower prices and revolutionize female sanitation at the BoP.
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Trade-offs in FY14: A case for the Global Fund
Amid an increasingly complex fiscal environment in Washington (i.e. the newly-triggered sequester and the soon-to-expire FY13 continuing resolution), I can’t help but think about the tough trade-offs the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) must be considering as they finalize the 2014 budget request to Congress, expected to be released in mid-March.
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From Andrew Square, taking on the UN for Haiti
Fights against entrenched and powerful forces are sometimes waged from highly improbable places. As a case in point: Brian Concannon is taking on the United Nations from the sanctuary of a quiet former convent in Andrew Square.
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Energy poverty deprives 1 billion of adequate healthcare, says report
Neglect of energy undermines healthcare and education, leaving patients, teachers and children in the dark.
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