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Healthy Foods and New Jobs, Part 2: Infrastructure matters
On the way to introducing a food cart vendor business in Benin, West Africa, MamaCarts has encountered all sorts of problems with sanitation, incorporation and the government. But there’s a positive spin on these infrastructure gaps: Alternative solutions do exist and people circumnavigate these difficulties on a daily basis.
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- Agriculture, Education, Health Care, Social Enterprise
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Gates Foundation battling big new threat in malaria fight
Just as Myanmar opens up to the world and becomes a place of economic opportunity, fears are rising over the spread of a drug-resistant form of malaria. But efforts are under way, including a big initiative of the Gates Foundation, to fight this problem.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Healthy moms give birth to ‘similar size babies’ worldwide
Washington: A new International study has revealed that babies born to healthy mothers are remarkably of the same size worldwide.
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- Health Care
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- public health
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How We Cope With MDGs Challenges
As the global community winds down the efforts towards the Millennium Development Goals, countries’ efforts are coming under scrutiny. In this interview with OLUOKUN AYORINDE, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on the Millennium Development Goals, Dr. Precious Kalamba Gbeneol, gives insight into the progress so far recorded by the country and others
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- Health Care
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- public health
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Supporting the Growth of Inclusive Businesses: Three lessons on ‘industry facilitation’
In looking beyond individual organizations trying to grow their business models, the Results for Development Institute saw some common themes about what industry facilitators can do to support the growth of inclusive industries.
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- Education, Health Care
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HP Will Expand Its Cloud-enabled Rural Health Care Centres In India
HP's two day long summit is on in Mumbai, India. Today world's major technology and data solutions company, HP, revealed a lesser known fact.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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- public health
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GNRC announces launch of air ambulance service in North-East India
GNRC (formerly known as Guwahati Neurological Research Centre) today unveiled plans to initiate air ambulance and medical outreach programme using helicopters to remote areas of North-east India.
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Healthy Foods and New Jobs, Part 1: MamaCarts learns valuable lessons while launching food cart delivery service from scratch
MamaCarts began by pitching an idea at a business plan competition and culminated with receiving a 2013 Rockefeller Foundation Centennial Innovation Challenge Award. That’s all there is to starting a food cart delivery service in Benin, West Africa, right? Wrong.
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- Agriculture, Education, Health Care, Social Enterprise
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