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Press Release: 54gene Closes $25 Million Series B to Advance Global Drug Discovery Capabilities
Cathay Africinvest Innovation leads round as company expands precision medicine capabilities across the African continent.
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- Health Care
- Region
- Global
- Tags
- scale
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Report: Dozens of Nations Might Struggle to Fund Health After COVID-19
Many lower-income and other nations will be unable to maintain pre-pandemic levels of financing for their health systems, as the COVID-19 crisis forces cutbacks on government spending overall, the World Bank warned in a report.
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- Coronavirus, Health Care
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- Global
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Press Release: DFC Approves More Than $1.4 Billion in New Investments for COVID-19 Response, Global Health, Gender Equity, Technology, and Renewable Energy
The U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) Board of Directors has approved nine investments totaling $925 million this quarter.
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- Coronavirus, Health Care, Technology
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- Global
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Press Release: Strengthening Systems for Safer Childbirth: a Call To Action to Accelerate Progress in Ending Maternal Mortality
During the celebration of its 10th anniversary, Merck for Mothers announced today the creation of a new global collaboration, Strengthening Systems for Safer Childbirth.
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- Health Care
- Region
- Global
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- SDGs
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Inside India’s Unfolding Healthtech Revolution
Thanks to a convergence of factors, India has a rare window to leapfrog on health just like telecom and banking.
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- Health Care
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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Asia Healthcare to Raise up to $350 Million From New and Existing Investors
The capital raised will be used by Asia healthcare Holdings to acquire new single-specialty healthcare businesses in India.
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- Health Care, Investing
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- Asia Pacific
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- impact investing
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Digital Health Platform Doctor Anywhere Closes US $65.7 Million Series C Round in Southeast Asia
At SGD US $65.7 million, it is one of the largest private funding rounds ever raised by a healthtech company in Southeast Asia.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- South Asia
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Pandemic Threatens Asia-Pacific’s Progress on Global Development Goals, Says Asia Development Bank
"As the socioeconomic impacts of responses to the virus continue to unfold, people already struggling to make ends meet are at risk of tipping over into a life of poverty," the Manila-based lender said.
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- Coronavirus, Health Care
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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- global development, SDGs
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