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With $37.5 M Series B Funding, Healthcare Startup Portea Plans Massive Hiring and Acquisitions
Entrepreneurs rarely announce funding on a Sunday. But today is an exception. Home focused healthcare platform Portea announced that it has raised $37.5 million Series B round led by existing investor – Accel and International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group; Qualcomm Ventures, and Ventureast.
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- Health Care
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Viewpoint: Sanitation Financing: An Opportunity to End Open Defecation
“Why do we have toilets at school but not at home?” This question from one of her children prompted Nusrat, a wife and mother of six living in India, to apply for a sanitation loan. Within two weeks of receiving the loan, Nusrat was able to purchase a toilet. Now, one year later, the monthly instalments on Nusrat’s loan have all been repaid and her family is happier, healthier, and safer.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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- impact investing
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Gates Foundation Opens Free TB Medicine Gate to All
Tuberculosis (TB) patients seeking treatment at private hospitals anywhere in the state will no longer have to pay for the expensive drugs.
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- Health Care
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MOOCs on the Move
s MOOCs grow in influence and sophistication, they’re no longer simply reimagined in a Harvard classroom or even in a nearby studio. Recently, transforming a residential course — going digital viaHarvardX — included filming in far-flung Rwanda and Haiti.
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- Education, Health Care, Technology
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Gambian Community Project Helps Women Turn Waste to Worth
In scrubby wasteland tucked behind a bustling market on the Gambia coast, five women in overalls determinedly hammered at small metal cylinders, the din reverberating around the tin-roofed shelter.
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- Energy, Health Care
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- waste
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This Nigerian Architect Wants to Turn Africa’s Water Slums into Floating Cities
Nigerian architect Kunlè Adeyemi is re-imagining African’s water slums as floating islands.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Sustainable Development Goals Fail to Recognize Role of Business
The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and their 169 associated targets fail to recognise the importance of business as a force for social change concludes a new report by the British Council and Social Enterprise UK (SEUK).
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- Environment, Health Care
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- Europe & Eurasia
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Power, Protection, and Pleasure With Female Condoms
They huddled around the table, with their matching school uniform of maroon pants and white tops. Some were on their tiptoes, heads bobbing up and down trying to get a good look. Others were crouched down so they could see between the girls in front of them. Two in the back whispered to each other, curious about the demonstration they were seeing.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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