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Smart cards that top-up health
Most of Kenya’s population can’t afford the crippling expenses if they fall seriously ill. But help is at their fingertips via their mobile phones.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Lauren Bush Lauren: Social Enterprise Is Her Bag
The founder of FEED explains how she turned a simple burlap bag into a powerful tool for fighting world hunger.
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- Health Care
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- nutrition
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How Meals at School Help the Kyrgyzstan Economy: 12 years after launching Food For Education, Mercy Corps looks back
The reality is that a school meal may be the only meal a child receives in a day, and it can make the difference between future success and a lifelong struggle with poverty.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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- nutrition
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Visionary – The Q&A: Dr Geoff Tabin and Dr Sanduk Ruit
The world has around 40m blind people, around 90% of them in the developing world. Much of this blindness treatable.
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- Health Care
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Counterfeit medicine trade targets Africa’s poor
"Street medication kills. The street is killing (safe) medication," declares a banner outside a pharmacy in the Cameroonian capital Yaounde, where the dangerous trade is rampant.
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- Health Care
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- Asia Pacific
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Niger and Global Fund sign €13.5 Million malaria grant
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has signed a 13.5 million euro grant agreement that will intensify efforts to provide families with mosquito nets and improve the diagnosis and treatment of malaria in Niger.
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- Health Care
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- public health
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Study shows HIV/AIDS remains a major health burden to Kenyans
Contrary to Kenya’s Health ministry’s position, HIV/AIDS remains a major health burden in Kenya despite numerous efforts to contain the scourge, according to a new study from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington, USA.
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- Health Care
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‘There is no element of the market that is really safe’: Hewlett Packard’s Paul Ellingstad on health care innovation, and doing business at the BoP
The BoP hasn’t traditionally been a major focus of multinational corporations. But that’s starting to change, as major players start looking to the younger, faster-growing developing world for future growth. NextBillion Health Care spoke with Hewlett Packard’s Paul Ellingstad about the promise of technology, the importance of innovation, and the challenges and opportunities in the BoP market.
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- Health Care, Technology
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