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Debunking Myths on the Impact and Income of Women Sales Forces: New Data Reveals Ways to Maximize Their Potential
The use of female sales agents to sell health-related products is sometimes seen as a panacea that can boost both healthcare access and women’s income empowerment. But little research has been done to prove or disprove these beliefs. Lucie Klarsfeld McGrath and Louise Berthault at Hystra discuss a new report analyzing data from 21 organizations that rely principally on women direct sales forces to sell health-related products. Their analysis sheds light on the role and impact that women sales forces can have, and suggests ways to maximize their impact.
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- Health Care
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Nigeria Sets Up $149 Million Fund to Fight HIV/AIDS
Nigeria on Tuesday launched a 62 billion naira ($149 million) fund to help fight HIV/AIDS, especially targeting the prevention of mother-to-child transmissions as foreign funding for such programmes was under strain due to focus on COVID-19.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- youth
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Medical Tourism Startup Hospals Raises $3.5 Million from Inflection Point Ventures, 9unicorns, Wavemaker & Kunal Shah
Hospals, a cross border health benefits & travel platform that enables international patients to access healthcare across India, UAE, Turkey & Thailand, announced part raise of its Pre-Series A investment.
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- Health Care
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Leveraging Big Data to Improve Mental Health After COVID-19: An Innovative Research Method Reveals Unmet Needs and Untapped Opportunities in Nigeria
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a marked impact on the state of global mental health, particularly in emerging regions like Africa. According to Ravi Sreenath and Amy Nguyen at Ripple Research, this has generated a significant need – and a market opportunity – for digital health tools, as well as a need for better data. They assess the state of mental health in Nigeria, analyzing data from millions of conversations across news sites, blogs and social media platforms – and explore how this data reveals new opportunities for social enterprises and investors.
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- Coronavirus, Health Care, Social Enterprise, Technology
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- climate health, COVID-19, data
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Dental Care Startup Smiles.ai Raises $23 Million in Series A investment
Healthcare startup Smiles.ai has raised $23 million in Series A funding led by Alpha Wave Incubation (AWI). The round also saw participation from existing investors Sequoia Capital India and Chiratae Ventures.
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- Health Care
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- Asia Pacific
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- innovation, startups
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Vietnam’s Con Cung Secures $90 Million Investment From Quadria Capital
The maternity and baby care retailer intends to use the proceeds to bolster its local footprint.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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- youth
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Announcing Our New Series: NextBillion’s Most Influential Articles
NextBillion runs our "Most Influential Articles" contest at the end of each year, in which we select 12 of our most-read articles from the previous year and invite readers to vote for their favorites. Since 2021 marked the 10th year of the contest, we're commemorating a full decade of thought-provoking analysis and opinion from entrepreneurs, investors, researchers and others in the emerging markets business and social enterprise sectors with a new series highlighting all of NextBillion’s Most Influential Articles from 2012 to today.
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- Agriculture, Coronavirus, Energy, Finance, Health Care, Impact Assessment, Investing, Social Enterprise, Technology
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Medical Credit Fund Raises $37 Million from the Netherlands’ Government, Philips, European DFIs to Boost Financing for SMEs to Fight Malaria, Boost Maternal Health in Africa
Medical Credit Fund, one of the four nonprofit members of the Netherlands-based PharmAccess Group, recently raised a mix of equity and debt totaling EUR 32.5 million to “expand the Fund’s presence and support to healthcare providers in sub-Saharan Africa.”
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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