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Drones Are Delivering COVID-19 Vaccines to Underserved Communities
The company Zipline is using the technology to provide medical resources to rural areas in markets around the world.
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- Coronavirus, Health Care, Technology
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Analysis: How the Governments of Africa Are Prioritizing Resilience in the Pandemic Era
Digital access, data-sharing and modernized systems are making a difference in the fight against Covid-19.
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- Coronavirus, Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Niti Aayog Forecasts Healthcare Sector to Reach $372 Billion by 2022 in India
India’s healthcare sector is expected to reach $372 billion in 2022, registering a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of around 22% since 2016, more so with the pandemic opening up several opportunities, NITI Aayog said in a report on Tuesday.
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- Health Care, Investing
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Ghana’s Redbird Raises $1.5 Million Seed to Expand Access to Rapid Medical Testing in Sub-Saharan Africa
For patients and healthcare professionals to properly track and manage illnesses, especially chronic ones, healthcare needs to be decentralized. It also needs to be more convenient, with a patient’s health information able to follow them wherever they go.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- startups
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Press Release: Missio Invest Secures $20 Million Anchor Investment from U.S. International Development Finance Corporation
Loan Facility to Support Initiatives Addressing Food Security, Financial Inclusion, and Health and Education Outreach in Sub-Saharan Africa
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- Agriculture, Education, Health Care, Investing
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Press Release: Unite Us Announces It Has Raised $150 Million to Scale Nationwide Social Care Infrastructure
Unite Us, an enterprise technology company providing the digital infrastructure to power the integrated health and social care ecosystem, today announced that it has raised $150 million in a Series C financing led by ICONIQ Growth. The investment follows a record performance in 2020 for Unite Us that saw it expand into 42 states, including 16 new statewide networks, driving cross-sector coordination and improved health in community-based settings.
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- Health Care, Investing, Social Enterprise
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- impact investing, scale
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Press Release: TVM Capital Healthcare Exits Cambridge Medical & Rehabilitation Center for US $232 Million, a 4.6x Return on Capital Invested
As a highly active growth capital investor, TVM Capital Healthcare has invested and grown CMRC to be a sustainable healthcare business which continues to have a significant social impact on the communities it serves.
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- Health Care, Investing
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Analysis: In Vaccine Race, Middle Income Nations Are At A Disadvantage. Just Ask Peru.
Peru is classified by the World Bank as "upper middle-income." So it has some money to spend on vaccines but not nearly the financial resources of the U.S., the European Union or even wealthier neighbors like Brazil or Chile.
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- Coronavirus, Health Care
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- Latin America
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- vaccines