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September 15, 2012
Making medical care affordable in developing countries – with the crowd’s help
Watsi is the name of an innovative social enterprise which is like Kiva for healthcare. Watsi.com is a medical crowdfunding platform which its founder, Chase Adam, having seen people giving money to a woman showing them her son’s medical bills, was sure would work. Read more here.
September 15, 2012
Innovations in African healthcare scenario
This post enlists a number of process and technology innovations which have been helping the upward development progress curve in Africa rise steeper. This list features a few healthcare innovations too – the Cardiopad, Sickle cell disease research, and the Tutu van. Read more here.
September 15, 2012
Negative impacts of health due to poor housing
This post concentrates on the effects of poorly structured unorganized housing at the bottom of the pyramid, which usually makes for non-sustenance of health in the long run for the poor people who live in such houses. Read more here.
September 15, 2012
India: Getting India’s public healthcare ‘out of the ICU’
This post talks about the real issues being faced by the poor who are uninsured against illnesses in the developing world, and in this case, in India. The writer, who is a professor of public policy suggests a number of sectors which should be focussed on to solve the problem […]
September 15, 2012
South Africa: Some too poor to avail free healthcare
A study by UCT (University of Cape Town) on two South African communities came out with the dismal result that there exist those who are too poor to avail even the free healthcare services provided by the government, mostly because they cannot afford the cost of transportation. Read more here.
September 15, 2012
Nigeria’s poor healthcare system worries medical experts
Healthcare professionals took the opportunity at the start of the 48th Annual Scientific Conference/AGM in Benin to berate the dismal healthcare provision conditions in the country. Read more here.
September 15, 2012
India: The innovative concept of rental housing
The Indian state of Odisha has decided to implement an innovative housing concept to help its urban poor in the state’s capital, Bhubaneshwar. The government will be making rental housing blocks and rent these out to the poor at INR 2000, thereby trying to prevent mushrooming of unreliable and informal […]
September 15, 2012
India: NHB targets INR 40 billion under Rural Housing Fund in FY 2013
NHB (National Housing Bank), a wholly owned subsidiary of the Reserve Bank of India, India’s Central Bank, is targeting the disbursal of an amount of INR 40 billion under the Rural Housing Fund in the coming financial year. This is going to help the housing needs of rural India, most […]
September 15, 2012
India: Availability of credit major impediment in rural housing
According to Union Minister of State for Finance, Namo Narain Meena, one of the most important reasons why rural people have getting access to decent and affordable housing. A recent survey shows that about 66 per cent of the rural residents in the country use their own resources to build […]
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