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Inter-American Development Bank Report Highlights Business Opportunities At Base of the Pyramid in Latin America and Caribbean
According to an Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) report released today, the base of the pyramid is a $759 billion market offering promising business opportunities to the private sector.
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- Latin America
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South Africa Is Rebranding Its Condom Campaign: Will It Work This Time?
The South African National Department of Health has launched a new safe sex campaign. Over the next three years it plans to distribute 3 billion scented male condoms, 54 million female condoms and 60 million sachets of lubricant to 4000 sites countrywide. It will cost taxpayers R3.5 billion.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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South Africa Moves Towards Universal Health Care, While India Stagnates
South Africa's bold new proposal for universal health coverage in the face of stiff opposition from private health care providers is likely to become a model for providing sustainable health care for much of the developing world. The proposal, called National Health Insurance, or NHI for short, has set off quite a debate within South African society. But health care experts believe it’s the first real step in post-apartheid South Africa towards bringing equity in health care.
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- Health Care
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AMPION, Merck Launch Africa’s First e-Health Accelerator
African entrepreneurship initiative AMPION and healthcare firm Merck have partnered to launch Africa’s first healthcare accelerator, aimed at fostering the growth of high potential, early-stage e-health startups.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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GE in $14.7M Vows to Build EA Healthcare Skills
Ahead of the Global Entrepreneurship Summit in Nairobi, announced a series of new commitments aimed at addressing some of the most critical health challenges in East Africa through a sustained focus on skills development and capacity building.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Ghana: Bamboo Bike Ambulances for Dawea Community Health Center
The Bright Generation Community Foundation (BGCF), a non-governmental organisation (NGO), has scored a first in its effort to utilise locally available and sustainable materials to manufacture an easier means of transport for the health sector.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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TechLab Wants to Mentor Africa’s 10 Best Financial and Health Tech Companies
African financial tech and health tech companies can improve their businesses through a new program aimed at providing mentorship to the 10 most innovative companies in those sectors.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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World’s First Malaria Vaccine Gets Regulatory Go-Ahead, Faces WHO Review
The world's first malaria vaccine got a green light on Friday from European drugs regulators who recommended it as safe and effective to use in babies in Africa at risk of the mosquito-borne disease.
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- Health Care
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