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Sidian Bank Signs Guarantee Deal for Health Sector SME Loans in Kenya
The facility is targeting healthcare facilities covering any shortfall they have in their collateral when borrowing from Sidian Bank.
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- Health Care
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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The Untapped Opportunity in African Healthcare: How to Establish a Stronger Private Sector by Giving Doctors a Voice
Africa has around 16% of the world’s population but accounts for around 23% of the global disease burden – and according to Mark Wien at PocketPatientMD, the private sector should be well-placed to address the continent's growing healthcare challenges. But across the region, for-profit providers are dealing with several obstacles that are hindering their growth. He explores the key challenges these providers – and the broader private healthcare sector – are facing, and discusses how businesses like PocketPatientMD are working to overcome them.
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- Health Care
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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
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- scale
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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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- public health
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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, Environment, Finance, Health Care, Investing, Technology, WASH
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- Global
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- SDGs
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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, Social Enterprise
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- distribution, nutrition
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