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How to Keep Clean-Burning Cookstoves From Gathering Dust: Devices that cut down on respiratory diseases too often aren’t being used
Smoky indoor cook fires and traditional stoves lead to 2 million deaths per year. In response, various programs have distributed cookstoves to 830 million people over the past 50 years. Unfortunately, many of these clean-burning cookstoves are unused. New monitoring technologies are being designed to find out why.
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- Education, Health Care, Technology
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CDC health projects improve disease detection and control
The US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) global health security (GHS) projects on early disease detection, response and prevention in Uganda and Vietnam have resulted in improvements in those areas.
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- Education, Health Care, Technology
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Opinion: A Wealthier Africa Will Depend on Health Care
The BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India, and China) have long been the focus of emerging-market investors. But it is in Africa, a region with the world’s second-fastest growth, where the next big business opportunities lie.
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- Education, Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Njambre and Arbusta: A mini case study in impact sourcing, co-creation in Latin America
When we created Njambre, a social enterprise accelerator in Buenos Aires, Our biggest added value comes from engineering things from the start: identifying a social problem, designing the solution, recruiting the entrepreneurs to lead the start-up and partnering with them. That’s what we did with Arbusta, which we believe is the first impact sourcing company in South America.
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- Technology
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IBM starts rolling out Watson supercomputer in Africa
IBM says system will improve farming, e-commerce, health.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Innovative off-grid fridges to give a sure chill to vaccines
The Philippines is set to receive donations of medical refrigerators with an innovative cooling technology that runs without electricity for up to ten days or more, ensuring the viability of vaccines especially in disaster-affected areas, SciDev.Net has learned.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Asia Pacific
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- supply chains, vaccines
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An African messaging app could beat out WhatsApp, Line and WeChat in India
This is what 21st century globalization looks like: Mxit, an African company has just announced its intention to enter the Indian market, taking on established players from the US and newer contenders from China and Japan. Mxit makes a popular mobile messaging app and claims 7.4 million monthly active users, with just under a million of those outside South Africa.
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Did T-Mobile just pull an Android on U.S. banks?
Operators have been trying for ages to launch mobile banking schemes hoping to create new revenue opportunities for themselves. T-Mobile’s latest attempt, dubbed Mobile Money, offers a refreshing new perspective on the space. Drawing on the playbook of innovators like Google and Amazon, T-Mobile uses two strategies that are indeed quite un-carrier-like.
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- Technology
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