Smartphones and the internet have made our planet byte-sized. It is no longer difficult, or even surprising, to imagine someone in Rio de Janeiro chatting, e-mailing, and...
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World leaders, together with the international development community, have launched a new, ambitious post-2015 agenda at the 70th UN General Assembly, building on progres...
“Shut out of modernity, they have been left on their own.” Earlier this month, Paul Farmer, founder of Partners in Health (PIH) addressed a group of close to ...
WASHINGTON, DC | August 11, 2014 - This week on BIZ+SOCIAL, we bring you the best from New Global Citizen, USAID, Citizen IBM, and more. GLOBAL PRO BONO Intel Uses ...
Recently, I was sitting in a hotel boardroom in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, with a team of executives from a major pharmaceutical company who were seeking to gain a better und...
A 19-year-old woman, five months pregnant, urgently needed to see a doctor, but the nearest medical facility was an hour-long drive away. Living in rural Zambia, public t...
At the Kyewanula Primary School, in Lyantonde, Uganda, the students, some as young as seven or eight, are dressed in purple uniforms with yellow trim, waiting quietly for...
PYXERA Global Shares Experience on the Changing Landscape of Internati...
WASHINGTON, DC | December 5, 2013 - Deirdre White, CEO of PYXERA Global, spoke on a panel discussing the evolving development landscape at the Council of Internatio...
With a growing proportion of Ghana’s GDP devoted to health care, and with the cost associated with the delivery of medicines and other health services on the rise, The Gh...
Operations Begin for the Supply Chain Development Program in Ghana
In March 2013, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) awarded a five year, $4.9 million grant to CDC Development Solutions (CDS) to implement the ...