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Social Business: Healthcare, with a difference
(About/Yunus Centre Highlights)
... They introduced the first product that was a chemically impregnated mosquito net, to help people combat insect-borne diseases, like malaria. "The reason is obvious, Bangladesh had an estimated 2.9 ...
Don’t Profit from the Poor, Says Grameen Bank’s Yunus
(News & Media/In the Media)
... where almost all groundwater has been found to be contaminated with this toxic substance. Grameen has also partnered with the German chemical company BASF to create mosquito nets to protect against malaria ...
Our economic framework is wrong, it must change
(News & Media/In the Media)
... to offer online solutions in healthcare and agriculture, and BASF Grameen to produce chemically-treated mosquito repellent nets to protect people from malaria, he is working overtime to add other building ...
Wondrous vision of capitalism with a conscience
(News & Media/In the Media)
... to prevent malaria. "This is just the beginning," says Yunus. "Whatever the problem is, you can create a social business to solve it. You have a choice - if there is a problem, you can grumble about ...
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's Remarks on Development in the 21st Century
(News & Media/In the Media)
...  Multilateral organizations like the World Bank, the IMF, the UNDP, the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria have the reach and resources to do what countries working alone cannot, along ...
Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus: Changing the System, One Social Business at a Time
(News & Media/In the Media)
... each year. Similar Grameen joint-venture social businesses are making low-cost mosquito nets impregnated with insecticide to prevent the spread of mosquito-borne illnesses like malaria, and shoes that ...
A Champion of Yes We Can
(News & Media/In the Media)
... venture with 
Dannone producing nutritionally fortified yogurt for malnourished villagers, another with BASF producing chemically treated bed-nets to protect people from mosquitoes carrying malaria, and ...
Professor Yunus’s Wish List
(About Dr.Yunus/About Professor Yunus)
...  will be enough to get him connected by voice or text. Vaccines will be available for all communicable diseases (HIV/AIDS, TB, Malaria, etc.). Every baby will be born in perfect health.  No infant ...
Grameen BASF
(Social Business/Social Business)
Grameen and BASF went into a joint venture because there are area’s in Bangladesh where there is a high risk of catching Malaria (58K newly infected in 2007). The product created is a mosquito net to ...
Grameen Healthcare Trust (GHT)
(Homepage/Homepage)
... mosquito nets to fight malaria, dengue and other mosquito borne diseases in Bangladesh. GHT is now working with national and international organizations for development of a number of other health related ...
Grameen Healthcare
(Social Business/Social Business)
... and pregnant/lactating mothers. In addition, BASF Grameen will produce and sell long lasting treated mosquito nets to combat mosquito borne diseases such as malaria and dengue in Bangladesh. Grameen ...
Money well lent
(News & Media/Interview)
... people drink poison every day"; and BASF Grameen will result in the German chemical giant providing treated mosquito nets at little cost to households to protect against malaria. Yunus is convinced that ...
Money Well Lent
(News & Media/In the Media)
... day"; and BASF Grameen will result in the German chemical giant providing treated mosquito nets at little cost to households to protect against malaria. Yunus is convinced that social business, rather ...
British Council Talking Without Borders Lecture
(News & Media/Speeches )
... nets at very little cost, so that every household can afford to protect itself from malaria. 4.Healthcare Programme You can explain this social business idea in any sector, including environment and healthcare. ...
What People Say About Dr. Yunus :: Bill Clinton
(Updates/Announcement )
... one-fourth of all the people who die this year–from terrorism, from natural disasters, from heart attacks, and strokes, and cancer–a quarter of all the people who die on earth will die of AIDS, TB, malaria, ...
Bangladesh: Professor Yunus Motherland
(About/About)
... half of the population lives on less than 1 USD per day. Health problems abound, ranging from surface water contamination, to arsenic in the groundwater, and diseases including malaria, leptospirosis and ...
Professor Muhammad Yunus’ Commencement Speech
(News & Media/Speeches )
... from malaria and other mosquito-borne diseases. We have to design a new global economic architecture to make sure that one person's enjoyment of life does not take away another person’s right to survival, ...
Nonprofit Groups Urged to Rethink Global Activities
(News & Media/In the Media)
... about malaria, HIV/AIDS, and other threats. The philanthropist Raymond Chambers, founding chair of The Millennium Promise Alliance and Malaria No More, was abuzz about the showdown between the actor Ashton ...
A Fix For The Economic Crisis
(News & Media/In the Media)
... (other-otc: BASFY - news - people ) (anti-malarial mosquito nets). The bank is in talks with Volkswagen (other-otc: VLKAY - news - people ), Adidas (other-otc: ADDYY - news - people ) and Allianz (nyse: ...
Social business to promote
(News & Media/In the Media)
... Any additional profits are reinvested fully in the company. “BASF Grameen Ltd. is not a charity. It combines business sense with social needs,” stressed Yunus. According to the WHO World Malaria Report ...
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