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Game-changing Partnerships: Health care companies in rural India finding ways to complement each other
About 840 million people in India - or 72 percent of the total population of 1.2 billion - are rural. For these 840 million people, health care is basically inaccessible. A few innovative companies are out to change that.
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- Health Care
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Ghana to vaccinate girls against cervical cancer – Mahama
Ghana this year will begin a demonstration project vaccinating girls against human papillomavirus (HPV). The HPV is the leading cause of cervical cancer, which is the biggest cancer killer of women on the African continent.President John Mahama revealed this in New York on Tuesday, when Ghana hosted a side event at the ongoing UN General Assembly, in collaboration with the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation (GAVI) and the Global Fund.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Africa’s Healthcare Cocktail: Of Coverage, Cost And Innovation
“You guys are investing in hospitals.” That was the question (or masked hope) of an American-trained Ethiopian doctor, the owner and head doctor of a local hospital in Addis Ababa. The question is a familiar one to investors in many of Sub-Saharan Africa’s emerging economies. Many foreign-trained doctors are returning home to the desperate health sectors in Africa. The perilous state of health care in Sub-Saharan Africa begs for more investment. Communicable and parasitical diseases persist, with few countries able to provide basic sanitation, clean water and adequate nutrition to all of their citizenry. Few countries are able to spend the $35 per person that the World Health Organization (WHO) considers the minimum for basic health care. But despite the extensive poverty, more than 50 percent of Sub-Saharan Africa’s health expenditure is paid out-of-pocket by individuals.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Organization Rallies Global Oncology Community to Eliminate Cancer Health Disparities
Today, more than half of new cancer cases and over two-thirds of cancer deaths occur in low- and middle-income countries. Underlying this burden of cancer is an unequal distribution of global resources, a lack of coordinated care for oncology patients, and a multitude of social, cultural, and economic factors that lead to late diagnosis and incomplete palliation in the developing world. To combat the growing cancer burden, concerted action is needed from the global health and oncology communities. In her Presidential Address to the 2013 Annual Meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, Sandra Swain, MD, highlighted the “possibilities and promise in global health equity,” encouraging oncology leaders worldwide to join the effort to bridge the “access gap” in cancer care. The Global Oncology Initiative, an academic and grassroots volunteer organization based out of Boston, Massachusetts, seeks to do just that. GO connects local and global oncology communities and is developing programs aimed at alleviating worldwide cancer care disparities.
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Three Global Health Successes That I Witnessed Firsthand
Somewhere bumping along the back roads in Mali, Nick Kristof challenged me to reflect on lessons learned from my 25 years working in Africa first as a Peace Corps volunteer in the 1980s and most recently on public health and nutrition programs for Helen Keller International.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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ChipCare’s handheld analyzer attracts one of Canada’s largest-ever healthcare angel investments
An innovative, handheld point-of-care analyzer, developed by ChipCare Corporation, has secured one of the largest ever angel investments in Canada's healthcare sector. Phase II financing has closed, with an investment of $2.05M to support ChipCare's continuing development and commercialization over the next three years.The financing evolved through a uniquely collaborative funding model among Canadian social angel investors, including Maple Leaf Angels, MaRS Innovation and the University of Toronto, with special financing leadership from Grand Challenges Canada and the Government of Canada.
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Be Brave, Be Bold, Be Passionate, and You Just Might Change the World
You know that sinking, cold feeling you get when you know something is bad, but when you really begin investigating, it turns out that the situation is much worse than you even anticipated? Now what if that problem is the safety of health care workers and the integrity of blood samples collected to diagnose and treat health issues like HIV/AIDS? Renuka Gadde traveled to medical facilities around the world to prove her theory that blood collection techniques and protocols were a weak point in health care systems. What she observed was even more alarming than she expected.
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- Health Care
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On the Ground at SOCAP – Day 2: Big partnerships, lean startups and government hijinks
Scott Anderson and Marzena Zukowska are your roving bloggers from this week’s Social Capital Markets Conference in San Francisco.
Here are just a few of the many snippets of wisdom they picked up during Day 2 (Wednesday) at the sprawling social investing gathering - taken from four of the day’s many sessions.- Categories
- Social Enterprise, Uncategorized
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