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Nigeria’s YC-Backed Remedial Health Raises $4.4 Million Seed Funding
Buoyed by a new $4.4 million equity seed round, Remedial Health is also looking for growth opportunities in East and West Africa.
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- Health Care
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
- Tags
- funding, global health, healthcare, scale, supply chain
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Kenyan Insurtech Firm Turaco Secures $10 Million Series A Round Fundraise
Turaco, the leading insurtech driving mass market insurance adoption, has announced the close of a $10 million Series A equity round led by AfricInvest.
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- Finance, Health Care, Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Press Release: AIDS Healthcare Foundation Pledges $10 Million to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
This announcement comes ahead of the Seventh Replenishment of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria in New York City on Sept. 21.
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- Finance, Health Care
- Region
- Global
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Analysis: India Must Improve Its Standard of Care To Achieve Universal Healthcare
The WHO says unaffordable medical bills push around 100 million people into poverty every year, hitting people living in low-income countries the hardest.
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- Health Care
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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‘Nearly Every Indicator of the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals Is off Track’: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s Report
This year's report, "The Future of Progress," especially noted the impact of the pandemic, wars in Ukraine and Yemen.
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- Agriculture, Coronavirus, Education, Energy, Entrepreneurship, Environment, Finance, Health Care, Investing, Technology, WASH
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- Global
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- climate, poverty, SDGs, social impact, sustainability
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An Overlooked Path to Health Impact: Four Tools to Increase Consumption Frequency for Beneficial Consumer Goods
Fast-moving consumer goods like fortified food products can improve nutrition in low- and middle-income countries. But as Lucie Klarsfeld McGrath and Louise Berthault at Hystra point out, they can only deliver health impact if they are consumed every day or every other day. They explore how increasing the consumption frequency of these products can boost their nutritional and health impact and drive companies' sales growth, and share four tools that can motivate consistent and frequent consumption patterns among low-income consumers.
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- Health Care
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Docquity Raises $44 Million to Grow Its Community of Healthcare Professionals
This new funding will further strengthen Docquity’s scale in its operations within existing markets and drive the company’s on-going growth momentum in Asia and globally.
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- Health Care
- Region
- South Asia
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Why Are Impact Investors Ignoring African Healthcare?
The need to support the private sector – which largely consists of thousands of small-scale clinics and pharmacies – cannot be overlooked.
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- Health Care, Investing
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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