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Healthcare Startup Africa Health Holdings Lands $18 Million Series a Funding, to Roll-out Tech-enabled Services
Africa Health Holdings, a healthcare startup running several hospitals, has secured $18 million in a Series A round, funds that will go towards building its “tech-forward healthcare system” across Ghana, Kenya and Nigeria.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Africa’s COVID-19 Response: It’s All About the People on the Ground
High rates of infection are setting Africa back but young innovators across the continent are deploying a social entrepreneurship skillset to fight the pandemic from the ground up.
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- Coronavirus, Health Care, Social Enterprise
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- Global
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- impact investing, vaccines
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Countries Commit To Develop Climate-Smart Health Care at COP26 UN Climate Conference
A group of 50 countries have committed to develop climate-resilient and low-carbon health systems at the UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow (COP26), in response to growing evidence of the impact of climate change on people’s health.
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- Health Care
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- Global
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Analysis: Zipline Needs Nigeria To Support Its Drone Delivery Medical Service—as Rwanda and Ghana Did
Getting into Nigeria could be big for Zipline’s larger ambitions as a logistics company that can move from just delivering medical products from government to health centers, to one that delivers other types of packages to consumers.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- vaccines
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Analysis: How Digital Technology Helped Support Ghana’s COVID Response
Real-time surveillance of reported COVID infections has been key to the global pandemic response. Many tools, devices and apps have been used to support surveillance.
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- Coronavirus, Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Verizon Business and Visionable Join Forces To Make Connected Healthcare a Reality
Verizon Business and Visionable have partnered to deliver a single secure infrastructure for healthcare providers across the APAC and EMEA regions
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Global
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South Africa’s RecoMed Raises $1.5 Million To Scale Its Online Healthcare Marketplace
South African online healthcare marketplace RecoMed has raised a $1.5 million financing round, the company confirmed to TechCrunch.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Havells, Godrej Family Offices, Samara Capital, Form Healthcare Platform Marengo in India
Samara Capital, Havells Family Investment Office, and Godrej Family Investment Office have come together to set up Marengo Asia Healthcare, a platform that will run multispecialty hospital chains.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Asia Pacific