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Village Capital and The Kresge Foundation Collaborate to Support Entrepreneurs Improving Health Outcomes
With the support of local ecosystem partners, Ben Franklin Technology Partners and the Nashville Entrepreneur Center, the organizations will operate a venture development program this fall with workshops in Nashville, Philadelphia, and San Francisco.
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- North America
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In Uganda, Doctor Just a Call or a Click Away
Uganda has just one doctor for every 25,000 people, and health care can be particularly hard to access in rural areas; but, a medical hotline is bridging the gap, using social media to allow Ugandans to talk directly with certified doctors and pharmacists.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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In Cervical “Selfies,” A Solution
What do candy crush and cervical cancer have in common? Well, nothing except, both can now be ‘screened’ on a smartphone.
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- Health Care, Technology
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Microfinance borrowers reach all-time high in Pakistan
he first quarter of 2016 has recorded an upward trend in microcredit outreach with active borrowers reaching an all-time high of 4 million while the gross loan portfolio of the sector crossed Rs100 billion, said the Pakistan Microfinance Network quarterly report.
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- Technology
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- North Africa & Near East
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Students and professionals team up for first Ann Arbor Health Hackathon
The "hackathon" included 24 hours of health-related “hacking,” which involved teams pitching ideas and creating prototypes for solutions to health problems. The event focused on preventing disease in underserved areas of the developing world.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- North America
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How Barclays Aims to Bring a Billion Unbanked into the Fold
Though its parent company, the $1.8 trillion-asset Barclays PLC, has had operations in Africa for more than 100 years, today Barclays Africa has only 12 million customers, about 1% of the continent's total population.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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NIH grants $2.3M to development of FeverPhone, a portable disease diagnosis kit
Quick diagnosis of bloodborne diseases can very much be a matter of life and death, but bouncing results off a hospital can take hours or days — so the National Institutes of Health and Cornell University are working on a device called the FeverPhone that could cut that time to as little as 15 minutes.
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Infoteria and Tech Bureau complete microfinance sector’s first blockchain experiment
According to the press release, this attempt marks the first blockchain experiment in the micro-finance sector. Both companies successfully transferred loan and deposit account data from BC Finance, Myanmar's largest microfinance institution, to the Mijin private blockchain. The blockchain was hosted on Microsoft Azure for this test.
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- Technology
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- blockchain, microfinance
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