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Twitter Top 10: 4-12-15
New resources. New partnerships. Even a cool new toilet. This week’s Twitter Top 10 is full of fascinating ideas and useful info, and you can help us get a head start on next week’s list. If you see anything interesting in the Twitterverse, you’re welcome to tweet it to our editors.
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- Agriculture, Education, Energy, Health Care
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Researchers Find Cheap, Effective Hepatitis Treatment
Researchers have discovered that an inexpensive allergy medicine can treat hepatitis C, a serious liver disease.
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- Education, Health Care
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- research
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2 New Ebola Vaccines Pass Important Early Test, Researchers Say
Two new Ebola vaccines have passed an important test, protecting monkeys against the strain of the virus responsible for the current deadly outbreak, researchers reported on Wednesday. Only one dose was needed, and there were no apparent side effects.
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- Education, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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African Hub Set Up to Boost Research Autonomy
African scientists look set to gain greater control over research in their own countries, if an ambitious plan for a regional hub to award grants and develop research capacity bears fruit.
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- Education, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- impact investing, research
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Announcing the Winners of the 2015 Case Writing Competition: Different geographies and companies, face the question of expansion
Whether its mobile money in Nicaragua, a joint venture in Bangladesh or a tea company in the Amazon, the winners of the 2015 NextBillion Case Writing Competition all face the same question: What’s the smartest way to expand? Check out this year’s winners.
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- Education
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- research
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Budget Cuts and Vaccine Fears Threaten Health Progress
Cuts to global health research budgets and people’s wariness of vaccines could hamper efforts to improve health around the world, two separate reports have warned in the run-up to World Health Day, which is marked today.
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- Education, Health Care
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NexThought Monday – It’s a Small World, After All?: Financial Diaries research reveals that the financial lives of low-income families in Kenya and the U.S. aren’t so different
In countries from Bangladesh, India and South Africa to Kenya and the United States, Financial Diaries studies have tracked the daily financial transactions of low-income people over time. The leaders of the Kenya Financial Diaries project compare their findings to a similar study in the U.S.
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- Education
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Chinese Pharma: A Global Health Game Changer?
The twenty-first century shift in geoeconomic power toward Asia has also spurred a rebalancing in global pharmaceutical research and development (R&D) investment toward emerging economies. China is currently the world’s second-highest investor in R&D and is poised to overtake the United States in R&D spending by 2023. Determined to become a world leader in the pharmaceutical sector, China spent $1.17 billion on promoting life and medical sciences in 2012—nearly ten times its 2004 level of investment. With U.S. funding for medical research on the decline, the surge in Chinese funding has prompted many policymakers to ask if the country's pharmaceutical industry could be the next game changer for global public health and access to medicine (ATM).
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- Education, Health Care
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- South Asia
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- research