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Fuente: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Until recently philanthropic organizations mainly used two channels to achieve their goals. They could give money to charities aligned to their vision or they could jumpstart the launching of organizations that would carry out their vision.

Fuente: Impatient Optimists A pregnant Kekchi woman arrives, clearly in pain, at a primary health center in Alta Verapaz, Guatemala. Her trusted midwife accompanied her on the three-hour ride from their village. Julio, a male Nurse’s Aide, receives the two women. He interviews the women in their…

Fuente: Latitude Magazine Latitude Magazine interviewed the Executive Secretary of the SM2015 Initiative, Emma Iriarte, after her talk in the prestigious forum TEDxPanamaCity. In her talk ‘1,000 Days for the Future of a Child’, Emma Iriarte highlighted the Mesoamerican challenges in maternal and…

Fuente: The Economist FROM a swimming pool halfway up Latin America’s tallest skyscraper, tourists and businessmen gaze out towards the fast-expanding fringes of Panama City. Off the Pacific coast, ships line up to enter the Panama Canal, ferrying Christmas presents from China to the east coast of…

Fuente: University of Washington Pregnancy-related infections are one of the leading causes of maternal mortality worldwide, with the burden falling disproportionately on low- and middle-income countries. Bundled packages of interventions targeted at these different syndromes should be integrated…

Fuente: BMJ Open Accessible Medical Research A model for scale up of family health innovations in low-income and middle income settings: a mixed methods study.

Fuente: Impatient Optimists blog, BMGF Yesterday, on Impatient Optimists, Jennifer James of Mom Bloggers for Social Good profiled three projects in sub-Saharan Africa to save the lives of women and newborns. She wrote, “If we can replicate these programs, bring them to other countries or regions,…

Fuente: Government of Canada The Goverment of Canada launches the fourth round of this unique program that enables innovators in low- and lower-middle-income countries and Canada to develop their bold idea with big impact to improve global health conditions.

Fuente: The Lancet Of the 555 million preschool children in developing countries, 32% are stunted and 20% are underweight. Child underweight or stunting causes about 20% of all mortality of children younger than 5 years of age and leads to long-term cognitive deficits, poorer performance in school…