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Researchers Find Cheap, Effective Hepatitis Treatment
Researchers have discovered that an inexpensive allergy medicine can treat hepatitis C, a serious liver disease.
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- Education, Health Care
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- research
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2 New Ebola Vaccines Pass Important Early Test, Researchers Say
Two new Ebola vaccines have passed an important test, protecting monkeys against the strain of the virus responsible for the current deadly outbreak, researchers reported on Wednesday. Only one dose was needed, and there were no apparent side effects.
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- Education, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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M-PESA Foundation Opens New Academy
The M-PESA Foundation has announced that it is constructing a state of the art, mixed boarding high school that will seek to provide a first class, unique education to gifted but economically disadvantaged children from all counties of Kenya.
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- Education, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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African Hub Set Up to Boost Research Autonomy
African scientists look set to gain greater control over research in their own countries, if an ambitious plan for a regional hub to award grants and develop research capacity bears fruit.
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- Education, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- impact investing, research
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Announcing the Winners of the 2015 Case Writing Competition: Different geographies and companies, face the question of expansion
Whether its mobile money in Nicaragua, a joint venture in Bangladesh or a tea company in the Amazon, the winners of the 2015 NextBillion Case Writing Competition all face the same question: What’s the smartest way to expand? Check out this year’s winners.
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- Education
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- research
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Budget Cuts and Vaccine Fears Threaten Health Progress
Cuts to global health research budgets and people’s wariness of vaccines could hamper efforts to improve health around the world, two separate reports have warned in the run-up to World Health Day, which is marked today.
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- Education, Health Care
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NexThought Monday – It’s a Small World, After All?: Financial Diaries research reveals that the financial lives of low-income families in Kenya and the U.S. aren’t so different
In countries from Bangladesh, India and South Africa to Kenya and the United States, Financial Diaries studies have tracked the daily financial transactions of low-income people over time. The leaders of the Kenya Financial Diaries project compare their findings to a similar study in the U.S.
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- Education
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Obgyn Training in Sub-Saharan Africa Bolstered By New Collections Shared Both Online and Offline
U-M’s 1000+ OBGYN Project provides free access to educational materials to support ob-gyn training in Africa for improved maternal, newborn care.
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- Education, Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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