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Four Challenges with USAID’s Grand Challenges for Development
December 16, 2011 Editor 0
USAID recently launched its second Grand Challenge for Development, All Children Reading, that follows on the earlier Saving Lives at Birth. Both of these endeavors are commendable. USAID should be experimenting with new funding models to create programming flexibility and expand its impact. The “grand challenge” model is one that has worked in the past […]
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New fund for young developing world innovators to tackle deadly global health conditions
November 15, 2011 Editor 0
Bold local ideas create big impact in developing countries Supporting the pursuit of bold, creative health-related innovations in developing countries is the goal of a new $18 million fund announced today by Grand Challenges Canada.
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Grand Challenges Canada announces innovative rising stars in global health
August 18, 2011 Editor 0
Creating a tattoo to deliver drugs; solar-powered HIV training device in Haiti; fetal heart monitor that needs no electricity From a tattoo that delivers drugs to combat the debilitating and disfiguring leishmaniasis disease; to solar powered tablets to train women in Haiti on HIV prevention; to a rugged, reliable fetal heart monitor that doesn’t require […]
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