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Analysis: COVID-19 Pushing Over 500 Million People Into Extreme Poverty: UN
The pandemic is likely to halt two decades of global progress toward universal health coverage, triggering declining immunizations and increased tuberculosis and malaria deaths, the global health body said.
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- Coronavirus, Health Care
- Region
- Global
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Asian Development Bank Signs $332 Million Deal With Government To Boost Sustainable Economic Recovery
The Asian Development Bank has signed a $332.05 million financing package with the Ministry of Economy and Finance to help Cambodia recover from the impact of the Coronavirus pandemic.
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- Coronavirus, Health Care
- Region
- South Asia
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- governance, lending
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Report: COVID-19 Brings 10 Challenges That Hinders Africa’s Path to Recovery
Africa faces 10 key governance challenges it must resolve in order for it to fully recover from the Covid-19 outbreak, according to this report by the Mo Ibrahim Foundation.
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- Coronavirus, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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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
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- human rights, vaccines
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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
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- Latin America
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myDawa Secures $1.2 Million in Gates Grant to Sell HIV Drug in Kenya
E-pharmacy firm MYDAWA has been awarded a grant of $1.2 Million USD from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
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- Health Care
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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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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