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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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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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- funding, global health, healthcare, scale, supply chain
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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
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- 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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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
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- 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, Entrepreneurship, Environment, Finance, Health Care, Investing, Technology, WASH
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- Global
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- climate, poverty, SDGs, social impact, sustainability
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Docquity Raises $44 Million to Grow Its Community of Healthcare Professionals
This new funding will further strengthen Docquity’s scale in its operations within existing markets and drive the company’s on-going growth momentum in Asia and globally.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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Why Are Impact Investors Ignoring African Healthcare?
The need to support the private sector – which largely consists of thousands of small-scale clinics and pharmacies – cannot be overlooked.
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- Health Care, Investing
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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