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An Ironic Impact of COVID-19: Will the Pandemic Put Digital Health (Finally) on the Path to Reducing Health Inequalities at Scale in Emerging Markets?
The COVID-19 pandemic has sparked a digital health revolution, and Michal Matul and Niti Pall at AXA Emerging Customers say these shifts could help close the healthcare access gap in emerging markets. Based on AXA's work bundling digital health services into its inclusive insurance products across nine countries, they share key lessons on how telemedicine can sustain this momentum and become a viable option for eliminating health inequalities over the long term.
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- Coronavirus, Health Care, Technology
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Analysis: A New Year Brings Enduring Challenges: Financing for Water and Sanitation Utilities During COVID-19
Despite well-established links between WASH and infection prevention, it appears that WASH may have, once again, failed to garner adequate support.
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- Coronavirus, WASH
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- public health, vaccines
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The First COVID-19 Vaccines Shipped Through COVAX Were Administered in the Ivory Coast
Frontline workers and public officials from the Ivory Coast on March 1 became the first people in the world to receive COVID-19 vaccines shipped from the COVAX Facility, in a long-awaited step toward global health equity.
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- Coronavirus
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- vaccines
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Viewpoint: Investors are failing African entrepreneurs — it’s time for a change
Despite the global economic slowdown caused by COVID-19, the case for investing in Africa is stronger than ever.
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- Coronavirus, Energy
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Analysis: In Vaccine Race, Middle Income Nations Are At A Disadvantage. Just Ask Peru.
Peru is classified by the World Bank as "upper middle-income." So it has some money to spend on vaccines but not nearly the financial resources of the U.S., the European Union or even wealthier neighbors like Brazil or Chile.
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- Coronavirus, Health Care
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- Latin America
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- vaccines
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Land Bank of the Philippines Lends Over $143 Million to MSMEs and Co-Ops for COVID-19
The Land Bank of the Philippines (LANDBANK) has approved loans totaling P6.95 billion for 227 borrowers composed mostly of micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) and cooperatives that are affected by the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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- Coronavirus, Finance
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- South Asia
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COVID-19 Oxygen Emergency Impacting More Than Half a Million People in Low- and Middle-Income Countries Every Day, as Demand Surges
COVID-19 has put huge pressure on health systems, with hospitals in many LMICs running out of oxygen, resulting in preventable deaths and families of hospitalised patients paying a premium for scarce oxygen supplies.
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- Coronavirus, Health Care
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- infrastructure
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Activating a Network of 4 Million: Community Health Workers are Key to Fighting COVID-19 – Here’s How They Can Accelerate Financial Inclusion
The COVID-19 pandemic has transformed the role of community health workers. According to Tanjila Mazumder Drishti, Khondokar Anwar Shadat and Raiya Kishwar Ashraf at BRAC, it has also demonstrated their potential as proponents of financial access — for themselves and the families they serve. They explore a BRAC initiative to enroll its 50,000 health workers in Bangladesh in mobile money, and share how this scalable model could have enormous implications for global financial inclusion.k
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- Coronavirus, Finance, Health Care, Transportation
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