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The Rx for Doctor, Entrepreneur Communication: Improving global health care includes speaking the same language
Both physicians and entrepreneurs, hopefully, are interested in improving the lives of the medically underserved around the world. To make this happen, the entrepreneurs need the doctors and the doctors need the entrepreneurs.
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- Education, Health Care
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- scale, skill development
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NexThought Monday: A strategic approach to scaling impact
By 2017, agriculture-focused TechnoServe aims to double its 2012 impact to directly benefit at least one million families a year and create cumulative financial benefits of more than $500 million for program participants. TechnoServe’s Simon Winter explains how, and provides insights on what other market-focused NGOs can do to increase their impact.
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- Agriculture
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- scale
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OPINION: Managing Finances Well is Key to Africa’s Success
More than ever, African governments need to make the region attractive to investors to shore up the growth path the continent has embarked upon.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Sankalp Forum 2014: Lessons for the India/Africa Connection
One of the key themes at the Sankalp Unconvention this year: How do we make all this ‘talk’ of Africa-India collaboration real? Over various roundtables and conversations, some key themes emerged on whether we are doing all that is necessary to foster collaboration between social enterprises in India and Africa.
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- scale
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DesignMedix Awarded $3 Million to Develop Low-Cost, Safe Malaria Drug
DesignMedix, Inc., a biotech startup with ties to Portland State University, received a grant for almost $3 million from the National Institutes of Health to continue development and manufacture of a new anti-malarial drug.
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- Health Care
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Indian Social Entrepreneurs Battle Bureaucracy, Need Help to Expand
Social entrepreneurship in India has seen exponential growth over the last decade, with an increasing number of skilled men and women starting up businesses which provide out-of-the-box ways of improving the lives of the country's 400 million poor.
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- governance, scale
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Governments need to ‘join up and scale up’ on health
World Health Day is a chance to reflect on the progress we’ve made since the occasion was first marked in 1950. But it’s also a moment to reflect on the huge challenges that remain. One child dying from preventable causes is one too many — but in reality, 6.6 million die in this way each year.
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- Environment, Health Care
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- governance, scale
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Health Workers Go the Last Mile: Organization is training staff to deliver care in the world’s most remote regions
Last Mile Health’s model recruits, trains, equips, manages and incentivizes frontline health workers, who deliver care door-to-door in remote villages and tackle 75 percent of the burden of the disease in these villages.
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- Education, Environment, Health Care
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- scale, skill development