During the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) in NYC Professor Yunus and Bill Clinton announced the Grameen Nurse Institute, a new social business in the healthcare sector that is backed by the Nike and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The financially sustainable and replicable business model emphasizes on the importance of girls' health and prosperity to ensure the health of future generations and economic progress. The institute will address health needs for girls from rural areas as well as offer job opportunities to girls based in rural areas by

• Countering the shortage of nurses through recruiting rural young women and educating them as nurses applying innovative techniques
• Creating a curriculum specifically aimed at health needs of adolescent girls
• Creating a social business with nurses playing a vital part in the overall health care system

"The health of girls and women is a true indicator of the health of a nation and of the next generation. If girls and women are not healthy, we are all at a disadvantage," says Professor Muhammad Yunus. "Girls have been invisible to the health care system far too long; they must be at the center of it. By engaging girls and young women to provide quality health care for those around them, we can address girls' health needs while creating productive livelihoods and a healthier society overall."

In Bangladesh there are three times as many doctors as nurses living in urban areas. Rural areas are significantly underserved not only because of their location but also because of their culture which opposes a male thoroughly treating a female. About 90 percent of births are delivered at home and 15% of those involve serious complications.

For more information see:
http://www.finanzen.net/nachricht/Nobel-Prize-Winner-Muhammad-Yunus-Announces-New-Social-Business-Model-to-Transform-the-Health-Care-Landscape-for-Girls-in-Bangladesh-674301