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Why Health Care Remains Poor in NGO-rich Haiti, and How Social Enterprises Can Fix It
Haiti is well known for its high concentration of aid-driven actors; no other country in the world has more NGOs per capita. And that's not a good thing. It's led to a chaotic marketplace which adversely impacts vulnerable people, according to Allison Howard-Berry of Care 2 Communities. She believes, however, that a social enterprise approach to health services in Haiti can work, in time, and describes how.
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Q&A: SystemOne CEO on data solutions improving health care in developing countries
Health monitoring systems are an important fight in the battle to identify, contain and monitor diseases that have the potential to infect thousands, if not millions, of people worldwide. Outbreaks of Ebola and Zika have shown the fundamental flaws in our systems to respond quickly in order to halt a disease in its track — particularly in developing countries.
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Campaigners refuse to throw in the towel over India’s ‘tax on blood’
In India, it is a subject usually spoken about in whispers or behind closed doors. But after a social media campaign by a local politician, Bollywood stars, comedians and writers have joined thousands of people in tweeting videos of themselves urging finance minister Arun Jaitley to scrap sales taxes on sanitary towels.
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- South Asia
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WHO and partners provide vaccines to control meningitis C in Nigeria
A vaccination campaign is underway in Nigeria to contain an outbreak of meningitis C, a strain of meningitis which first emerged in the country in 2013. Since the beginning of this year, the country has reported 4637 suspected cases and 489 deaths across five states.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Fertility apps: The ‘next wave’ in solving global family planning crisis
Every year, lack of access to contraception causes about 85 million unplanned pregnancies and a host of negative associated health outcomes. One expert said this global health crisis can be mitigated with apps that allow women to understand and track their fertility.
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Anti-‘global gag rule’ campaign seeks private sector, philanthropic support
There is a long way to go before the (She Decides) fund reaches its $600 million annual goal — the minimum amount of funding that is expected to be lost from U.S. aid cuts as a result of the global gag rule.
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From Luxury to Economy: Segmenting Health Care to Reach the Poor
Should health care be segmented in much the same way as cars and other products? Our gut reaction is likely to be, “No!” After all, it seems unfair that those with money have access to care while the poor don’t. But health care already is segmented across a variety of social determinants, including wealth. What if health care was not segmented based on the quality of care provided? Instead, what if health care were segmented based on how the care was delivered?
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- Health Care
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Putting Vision into Focus: Lessons on Scaling Up a Social Enterprise
Out of everyone experiencing vision losses globally, 2.5 billion of them can have their vision restored with just a pair of eyeglasses. BRAC and VisionSpring are tackling this problem in Bangladesh through an innovative social entrepreneurship model: They sell low-cost reading glasses to low-wage earners through BRAC’s network of community health workers.
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- Health Care, Social Enterprise
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