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Access to medicines: and for credit too!

Sonja says:
“No doubt many of you have seen Mike Gretes’ fant­astic talk at TEDx­Terry Talks 08. If you haven’t yet, there’s a treat in store for you! Check it out:

While I don’t have an ador­able goatee like Mike does, I share his enthu­si­asm for increas­ing world­wide access to essen­tial medi­cines. I also hap­pen to […]

Making money, and being a do-gooder. Sounds interesting?

Dionne says:

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On Sat­urday Novem­ber 21st, A brand new (really excit­ing) one-day con­fer­ence is mak­ing its debut.
The Social Entre­pren­eur­ship Exper­i­ence (SEE) is a unique event where stu­dents can come learn how to effect change in the local com­munity. Lead­ers who have suc­cess­fully star­ted for-profit busi­nesses that tar­get social issues will be […]

A kind of medical Apartheid (or How much money are we spending on this swine flu thing?)

First, take a quick peek at this Gapminder.org video for a gen­eral sense of the problem:

Now, this video is from May 2009, after the first few weeks of the ini­tial out­break, and it also has a focus on media rep­res­ent­a­tion, but with the recent worry over poten­tial vari­ants of the H1N1 virus rear­ing in the […]