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Aspen Pharmacare, Pursuing J&J Vaccine License, Aims to Shore up Local Capacity and Quash Shot Inequality in Africa
Aspen already has a deal to package J&J's shot at its facility in South Africa. Under the terms of the potential licensing pact, Aspen would be in charge of finishing vaccine doses as well as marketing the shot on the continent. building local vaccine manufacturing capacity on the continent.
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- Coronavirus, Health Care
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
- Tags
- human rights, vaccines
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Analysis: Private Asset Impact Funds Show Resilience in the Face Of The COVID-19 Pandemic, Forecast Double-digit Growth In 2021
With a record sample size of 175 impact funds, the 2021 edition of Tameo’s flagship research report brings refreshing transparency and a holistic understanding of key trends and benchmarks inherent to impact investing strategies through funds.
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- Coronavirus, Investing
- Region
- Global
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The Digital Revolution in Healthcare: How COVID-19 Has Accelerated Efforts to Close the Health Data Gap in Emerging Markets
In many emerging markets, there is a lack of accountable, accurate, real-time health information. With most medical information stored either on paper or on unconnected, often incompatible digital platforms, health statistics are largely disjointed, incomplete and inaccurate – a data gap that impacts every stakeholder in the healthcare ecosystem. However, according to Mark Wien at PocketPatientMD, this situation is changing. He explores how COVID-19 has accelerated the transition to digital data solutions, and highlights some key challenges to these efforts.
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- Coronavirus, Health Care
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An Uneven Recovery: The Impact of COVID-19 on Latin America and the Caribbean
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Latin America and Caribbean country's quality of available jobs has declined, as has the number of hours of paid work per week, according to data from a new survey by the World Bank and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP).
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- Coronavirus, Health Care
- Region
- Latin America
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Oravax To Develop Israeli Oral COVID-19 Vaccine in Mexico
Israel’s Oravax Medical, a subsidiary of Oramed Pharmaceuticals Inc. announced this month that it has partnered with Genomma Lab Internacional, in a 50/50 joint venture to develop and commercialize Oravax’s oral COVID-19 vaccine candidate in Mexico.
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- Coronavirus
- Region
- Latin America
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UN: Pandemic-fueled Collapse of Tourism Cost Five Asian Nations 1.6 Million Jobs
Almost one-third of job losses in the Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand, Brunei and Mongolia was in tourism, report says
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- Coronavirus
- Region
- South Asia
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- employment, tourism
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Report: COVID-19 Travel Restrictions Had a Surprising Effect on Medical Tourism From Africa
Fewer trips to India and other “medical tourism” destinations by Africa’s middle class is one anticipated result of a surge of investment into medical facilities.
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- Coronavirus, Health Care
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- tourism
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European Investment Bank Publishes Unique Analysis of Impact of COVID-19 on Financing Across Africa
The new report explores how access to finance provided by banks, microfinance and private equity sectors have been affected and what long-term trends may impact private sector investment.
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- Coronavirus
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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