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Proper Sanitary Pads Are Keeping Girls in School
How do you cut the school dropout rate for girls in a remote pocket of Uganda? And how do you create jobs for village women? The answer to both questions: sanitary pads.
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- Education, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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How Dokita Is Improving Access to Health Information
Ghana and Africa as a whole faces a number of big challenges to healthcare delivery. A large part of the healthcare mandate depends on access not only to facilities and treatment, but also simply to empowering, life-saving information. This is often lacking or difficult to access in Africa.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Accenture, Amref to Improve mHealth in Africa
Accenture (NYSE:ACN) and the Accenture Foundations have awarded Amref Health Africa an additional grant of US$3 million to help the organization enhance and scale its mobile health training program to 3,000 community health workers in Kenya. This grant brings Accenture’s direct support to Amref Health Africa to more than US$7.3 million since 2005.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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$9.59 T Global Healthcare Market Attracts New Entrepreneurs
Business opportunities are attracting entrepreneurs to the $9.59-trillion global healthcare market in both developed and developing countries, according to a new report issued recently by PwC.
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- Health Care
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Toilet Could Turn Urine Into Electricity at Refugee Camps
An innovative urinal could turn pee into a source of electricity. Driven to find a way to protect women and girls in refugee camps who are often assaulted when they go to the bathroom at night, researchers at the University of the West of England (UWE Bristol) have devised a urinal that lights up when a person uses it.
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- Agriculture, Energy, Health Care
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Phone Camera Checks Water for Arsenic
UK scientists have developed a mobile phone-based system to help people avoid drinking water contaminated with arsenic.1 The phone’s camera measures quantum dot fluorescence in response to arsenic, achieving a limit of detection as low as 5µM.
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- Agriculture, Health Care, Technology
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- Europe & Eurasia
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A $20 Gadget that Can Save 70,000 Mothers a Year
The lives of tens of thousands of new mothers around the world could be saved by a simple, hand-held, British-made device costing only £12, which runs on a mobile-phone charger and is set to be introduced in hospitals across Africa, India and Pakistan.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Europe & Eurasia
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Will Indian Generic Pharma Players Live Up to Their Billing?
Compared with many other industries in the country, save for the software industry, the Indian pharmaceutical sector’s performance has been impressive and its future secure.
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- Health Care
- Region
- South Asia
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