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HewaTele Secures $10.5 Million From AfricInvest to Deliver High-Quality Medical Oxygen Across Kenya
This funding marks a significant step toward addressing one of East Africa’s most critical yet overlooked healthcare challenges: the availability of high-quality medical oxygen.
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- Health Care
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Nigeria Loses $363 Million Annually as EU Ban on Beans Exports Persists Over Pesticide Contamination
AAPN warned that over 80 percent of pesticides distributed to smallholder farmers in Nigeria fall into the "highly hazardous" category, often without farmers being aware of their risks.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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LSE’s 100X Impact Announces a New Cohort of Future ‘Social Unicorns’
LSE will provide over £2.4 million in unrestricted catalytic funding to the cohort, alongside access to 100x’s accelerator programme and world-class expertise to help scale their impact.
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- Health Care, Social Enterprise
- Region
- Global
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Plastics Linked to $1.5 Trillion in Annual Health Costs, Study Finds
This comes as world leaders have reconvened in Geneva this week to continue negotiations on the UN Global Plastics Treaty, which aims to establish the first legally binding international agreement to end plastic pollution across its entire lifecycle.
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- Health Care, WASH
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Plastics Linked to $1.5 Trillion in Annual Health Costs, Study Finds
A new report published in The Lancet has found that plastics are responsible for more than $1.5trn in global health-related economic losses each year, affecting people from infancy to old age.
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- Health Care, WASH
- Region
- Global
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Gates Foundation Pledges $2.5 Billion to Women’s Health Initiatives
This is the largest funding commitment the Gates Foundation has made in women’s health.
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- Health Care, Investing
- Region
- Global
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Africa’s First Cell & Gene Therapy Startup Altera Biosciences Raises R29 Million
This milestone positions Altera at the forefront of biotech innovation in Africa.
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- Health Care, Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Senegal’s Eyone Medical Raises $3 Million to Digitise West Africa’s Health Records
The platform is used in over 60 healthcare institutions across Senegal, Mali, Côte d’Ivoire, Cameroon, Gabon, and France.
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- Health Care, Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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