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New Guide Helps Countries Assess Immunization Financing Options
Today, a new resource guide, Immunization Financing: A Resource Guide for Advocates, Policymakers, and Program Managers, was released to provide practical advice to low- and middle-income countries seeking to mobilize resources for immunization programs. The guide offers 26 briefs, including eight country case studies, to assist countries looking to sustainably finance immunization.
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India scraps funding ties with Gates Foundation on immunization
A group backed by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation that works on India's immunization program will now be funded by the health ministry, a government official said, a move in part prompted by fears foreign donors could influence policy making.
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How Wealthy Private Investors Might Save Climate Research
President Trump has made sweeping changes in his first week in office. Scientific research—specifically environmental programs—have seen a huge hit. The new administration quietly froze all Environment Protection Agency (EPA) grants, as well as ordered a gag order on any employees from going public about it.
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- Environment
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- North America
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Big Funders, Big Data: The Growing Quest to Learn More About Global Health
Back in 2015, when Bloomberg Philanthropies teamed up with the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade to launch a $100 million Data for Health initiative, we learned something surprising: According to the World Health Organization, around two-thirds of all deaths around the world go unrecorded—that’s around 35 million people.
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India’s Government Thinks a Universal Basic Income Could Eradicate Poverty
India is considering a radical idea for tackling poverty: rolling out a Universal Basic Income (UBI), according to a report by the country's Ministry of Finance.
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80 per cent of all smokers live in low and middle-income countries, India one among it: WHO
NEW DELHI: Nearly 80 per cent of the over one billion tobacco smokers globally live in low- and
middle-income countries like India, WHO said today and asserted that policies to control its use, including taxation and price increase, can generate revenues for health care and development work.- Categories
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After Day 50: The Results From India’s Demonetization Campaign Are In
On the same day that Donald Trump was elected president of the United States, India also received an unexpected, earth-shattering announcement. However, theirs wasn’t of a disruptive, unconventional presidential candidate coming to power but of a disruptive new policy that would instantly shake up the lives of 1.25 billion people, rich and poor alike. At 10 p.m. on November 8th, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that on the stroke of midnight all 500 and 1,000 rupee notes — 86% of the currency in circulation — would cease to become legal tender.
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Social Business Gets Trumped: Is it Time for the Sector to Get Political?
Like most of us, Jonathan Lewis has strong opinions about the election of Donald Trump. In this podcast interview, the serial social entrepreneur and passionate advocate for the sector shares his frank views of the incoming administration, and why Trump's victory shows that social business has been "smug and remiss" in underplaying the impact of government. "The simple fact of the matter is: Government is scale," he says – so social business can no longer afford to be apolitical.
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- Social Enterprise