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ViewChange: Harnessing Commercial Markets to Fight Malaria
Today is World Malaria Day 2011. NextBillion video partner ViewChange is highlighting several films today that shine a light on successful anti-malaria enterprises, including NetMark, a public-private partnership dedicated to reducing malaria by harnessing the power of commercial markets to distribute insecticide-treated bed-nets (ITNs).
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From Unite For Sight 2011: Community Level Approaches to Health
As a seasoned (as in, once-before) Global Health and Innovation Conference attendee, I knew I was in for a weekend of astonishment, passion and creativity - but also one of perplexity and frustration. As the speakers noted, past problems will continue to be future problems if enterprises do not address social impact - and vice versa.
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Charting the Future at Women’s World Banking
In the final post of a wide-ranging interview, Mary Ellen Iskenderian, president and CEO of Women’s World Banking, discusses expansion at the organization to include multi-product servcies to individuals and explains why consolidation in would benefit the microfinance sector in the long term.
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