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October 6, 2012
India: Low cost generic medicines to be made available soon
A GoM, or a Group of Ministers have written to the Indian health minister Ghulam Nabi Azad, asking him to fast track a law wherein the payments made by pharma firms to doctors will be made transparent. This law will also make it mandatory for doctors to prescribe low cost […]
October 6, 2012
Kenya: Doctors protest against poor state of healthcare in the country
The healthcare conditions in Kenya couldn’t be worse as emergency rooms usually lack the basic materials like gloves, and medicine, and frequent power outages beset the institutions and doctors often have to use the lights from their cell phones to complete complex procedures on live patients. The doctors in the […]
October 6, 2012
Why Indians need healthcare portals too
There are comparative healthcare portals wherein telemedical centres, doctors, and services can be compared for cost, efficiency and other parameters. These services were almost non-existent before. A number of existent portals cater to the more privileged set of people like foreigners who come to India for world class treatments, while […]
October 6, 2012
Nigeria: Doctors recommend strategies to mend the broken healthcare sector
Doctors under the aegis of NMA or the Nigerian Medical Association ranked Nigeria’s medical coverage score very low. In view of this failing healthcare system of the country, the NMA president made a number of progressive suggestions that would better the medical sector. Read more here.
October 6, 2012
From user fees to universal healthcare coverage – a journey of 30 years
A new study by the Lancet that argues the case for universal healthcare coverage in countries was led by David de Ferranti, who was previously a staff member of the World Bank and chief proponent of the introduction of user fees, a concept that universal healthcare coverage opposes. This post […]
October 6, 2012
UK: £60 million fund for small and social enterprises
A lending fund worth £60 million was launched for small, micro and medium size social enterprises according to business secretary Vince Cable. Read more here.
October 6, 2012
GIIN gets a US$6.5 million boost
GIIN or the Global Impact Investment Network recently got a boost in scaling its impact investment activities, thanks to an investment worth US$6.5 million made collectively by the Rockefeller Foundation, the Omidyar Network and USAID. Read more here and here.
October 6, 2012
Clinton Global Iniative and how it bettered impact investment
The breakout sessions at the Clinton Global Initiative, with Andrew Grashow was very fruitful in terms of pinning down the real problems faced by impact investors as well as social entrepreneurs in their respective fields, and went against the norm as Andrew asked pointed questions that stressed on the problems […]
October 6, 2012
Acumen Fund and USAID to spur investment for social enterprises
USAID and Acumen Fund recently announced a collaboration which would result in the raising of up to US$15 million in private debt capital to social enterprises active in the African and South Asian regions. Read more here.
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