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Recent Developments, <br /> Key Innovations, and <br /> Insightful Reports

Recent Developments,
Key Innovations, and
Insightful Reports

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Unconditional cash transfers: Testing new theories

Should donor money be spent on infrastructure for the low income, or should the money just be handed out to the poor? This is a question that the international community is currently trying to answer. Loans given to people lesser known for responsibility – criminals, drug addicts showed that it […]

December 26, 2013

Will Kenya export its mobile banking revolution to India?

Mobile banking may have been a hit in Kenya (one in every three Kenyans have an M-Pesa account) but its success in other emerging markets is questionable, due to a slew of challenges in the localized markets, of regulatory, technical and economic nature. However, the need for mobile financial transactions […]

December 26, 2013

Japan joins the global force for Universal Healthcare Mission

Universal healthcare has been on Japan’s agenda for a while, but the country has only recently formally backed the World Bank in its agenda of universal healthcare access. Read more here.

December 26, 2013

UNITAID approves US$140 million in funding for HIV/AIDS treatment in Africa

UNITAID recently approved a grant of over US$140 million which will enable treatment of over 100,000 HIV/AIDS afflicted children in Malawi, Mozambique and Uganda. Read more here.

December 26, 2013

World Bank launches new program for improved health care in developing countries

World Bank is now devising new ways to fund healthcare to reduce maternal and infant deaths by ‘results based financing’. New ways are being innovated so that incentives are given to trained midwives for every healthy child they deliver, and mothers are paid to have their children delivered in hospitals, […]

December 26, 2013

Gates Foundation to double donation towards AIDS

Bill Gates is committed to almost doubling the Gates Foundation donation for AIDS, TB (read about the relation between TB and AIDS here) and malaria to US$500 million. A Global Fund of US$1.6 billion can be generated with matching grants from other donor organizations, according to Gates. Read more here.

December 26, 2013

Innovative healthcare apps developed for Social Innovation Camp for Health in the Philippines

This post enlists some of the successful technological innovations for Social Innovation Camp for Health in the Philippines. The winner was PinoyRx, an e-prescription application. Read about the others here.

December 26, 2013

Smartphone enabled device to perform vaccine checks

A device that can perform vaccine checks has been developed by Cambridge Consultants and Diagnostics For All, a social enterprise and healthcare technology company. Read more here.

December 26, 2013

Why every rural healthcare worker should be given a bike

This post is about the innovative healthcare organization, “Riders for Health”, in Africa, covering 7 countries, serving 14 million people. The program is so designed that the government ministries pay for the cost of operations. The mobility offered by bikes ensures timely vaccinations and other basic but important services in […]