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Bono Is Really Into Drones Now (But It’s Good)
The U2 frontman has just joined the board of Zipline, a medical delivery drone company that’s already saving lives in Ghana and Rwanda.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Unlocking the Medical Equipment Donation Ecosystem: Is a Blockchain Marketplace the Solution?
Every year hundreds of thousands of dollars of medical equipment is donated to hospitals in emerging markets, only to remain unused due to lack of knowledge, parts or maintenance. According to Vikas Meka, a blockchain-based donation platform could help – but it would be difficult to entice stakeholders to use it. He explores a solution: A token-driven marketplace that could unlock new social and economic value in the medical equipment donation ecosystem.
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- Health Care, Technology
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Press Release: FDA Approves New Treatment for Highly Drug-Resistant Forms of Tuberculosis
"FDA approval of this treatment represents a victory for the people suffering from these highly drug-resistant forms of the world's deadliest infectious disease," said Mel Spigelman, MD, president and CEO of TB Alliance. "The associated novel regimen will hopefully provide a shorter, more easily manageable and highly efficacious treatment for those in need."
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- Health Care
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PayPal Helps Entrepreneurs With MetLife and Village Capital
PayPal, venture capital firm Village Capital and financial health expert, MetLife Foundation, have come to together to launch Finance Forward – a global coalition to support fresh entrepreneurs.
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- Finance, Health Care
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Clean vs. ‘Clean Enough’: How the Clean Cooking Industry Can Overcome its Struggles to Scale
Access to clean cookstoves and fuels has only increased by 0.5% per year, well below all global development goals. To turn this trajectory around, Jessica Alderman at Envirofit International argues that the industry needs to resolve a high-stakes debate: Should it focus only on the cleanest solutions that have the greatest health and environmental impacts? Or should it fund and promote technologies that have lesser impacts - but that are more affordable and likelier to reach the people who need them most?
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- Energy, Health Care, Technology
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Kenyan Startup Ilara Health Raises $735k Seed Funding Round
Kenyan startup Ilara Health, which is bringing affordable diagnostics services to doctors, has raised a US$735,000 seed funding round to grow its offering in the East African country and ultimately beyond.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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‘Biotech R&D Makes India Hub of Quality Drugs, Vaccines’: Trevor Mundel of Gates Foundation
Trevor Mundel says India is not just making vaccines but making them within a quality system, has not been accomplished, broadly, and that is the unique aspect India has brought to the game.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- South Asia
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The Challenges of Going Local: A Medical Device Innovator Faces the Reality of Manufacturing in Rural Africa
Like many enterprises working in emerging markets, Noor Medical wanted to manufacture its product locally. As COO Andrew Bonneau explains, a local approach promised many advantages, from lower costs to a better understanding of its customers. But the company soon learned that manufacturing in developing countries like Uganda is often easier said than done. Bonneau discusses the obstacles the company has faced, and how they've overcome them.
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- Health Care, Social Enterprise, Technology
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