Superbug infections could cost the lives of around 2.4 million people in Europe, North America and Australia over the next 30 years...

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A Forbes article discusses how Jaipur Foot, a non-profit social enterprise that provides artificial limbs to physically challenged people living below the...

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Aravind Eye Care Systems in India has been sighted as an important example of “reverse innovation” in which products and service innovations...

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Embrace is a new cost-effective infant warmer, which targets bottom-of-the-pyramid families that have premature babies or those with low birth weights. The...

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Tier II Indian towns and cities are seeing expanding healthcare networks as hospital chains increasingly find the right balance between technology, cost...

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handygo Technologies and Uninor have developed and recently launched “Wellness World,” a health tool for customers throughout India, providing health advice via...

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Two Italian dentists recently leveraged Indian NGO Barefoot College in efforts to train low-income women on how to perform dental procedures such...

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During Intellecap’s annual Sankalp conference, Healthpoint Services won the award for Emerging Ventures in the health, water, or sanitation. Healthpoint focuses on...

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An Indian doctor trained in the UK is planning to open a 300-bed low-cost, high-quality heart hospital in South Indian state Karnataka...

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SANA Care, a social enterprise that enables medical service providers to diagnose and treat cardiovascular conditions in patients in rural India through...

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In another move to bring essential healthcare products to low-income communities in India, GE Healthcare will soon launch a low-cost ‘infant-warmer’ in...

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Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis continues to promote Arogya Parivar, a rural Indian healthcare business, which launched in 2007. Having been rolled out...

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The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has donated $23 million to an international health agency, which seeks to reduce the risk of...

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In a NextBillion series on healthcare solutions for the BOP, Indian-American Nandu Madhava, discusses mDhil, an organization he established to create better...

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A greater number of rural Indians are able to access low-cost, high-quality healthcare services through the growth of telemedicine services across India....

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Healthpoint Services, a for-profit start-up company in India has leveraged the country’s expanding mobile and internet infrastructure to establish a network of...

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Indian Housing Financing Corporation (DHFL) and the International Finance Corporation (IFC) have recently launched Aadhar Housing Finance (P) Ltd. to expand into...

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Through her work at MIT's Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab, economist Esther Duflo runs randomized, controlled trials to test poverty solutions....

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A recent study showed that between 2004 and 2009, Indian villages with internet kiosks that provided information on prenatal and postnatal care...

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Jordan Kassalow, the founder and CEO of VisionSpring, was recently named as one of the top 30 social entrepreneurs worldwide. VisionSpring was...

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With the medical device industry estimated to be worth $2.75 billion and expected to grow to $14 billion by 2020, an increasing...

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The idea for this report grew out of a meeting of leaders of the microfinance and health communities held in Ahmedabad, India...

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NPR profiles Healthpoint Services, an Indian company seeking to provide adequate and quality drinking water and healthcare services to rural populations globally....

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A useful technology may be able to help rural health workers in India with more efficiently recording health data. A digital pen...

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The second of a two-part series by Next Billion on the Aravind Eye Care System discusses how the organization’s culture of service...

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In the first of a two-part blog on the growth of the Aravind Eye Care System, NextBillion discusses how the eye-care clinic...

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The Medtronic Foundation is to invest $6 million of venture philanthropy to accelerate quality care and management of diabetes and heart disease...

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