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Press Release: Adjuvant Capital Announces $300 Million Venture Fund Designed to Improve Global Public Health
Adjuvant Capital today announced an oversubscribed $300 million fund focused on accelerating the development of medical innovations for historically overlooked public health challenges. Launched in 2019, Adjuvant's debut fund will support promising new technologies for indications that the venture capital industry has largely ignored.
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- Health Care
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Viewpoint: Gasping for Breath: COVID-19 Has Exposed the World’s Medical Oxygen Crisis
After years of campaigning, the pharmaceutical industry is inching forward in providing access to life-saving medicines in low-income countries, though much remains to be done.
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- Coronavirus, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Maya, a Startup Focused on Accessible Healthcare in Asia, Raises $2.2 Million Seed for Regional Expansion
Maya is dedicated to making it easier for women to get healthcare, especially for sensitive issues like reproductive and mental health.
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- Education, Health Care
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- Asia Pacific
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Indian Health Tech Startup Phable Raises $12 Million to Serve Patients With Chronic Conditions
Hundreds of millions of people in India suffer from chronic diseases. One of the biggest challenges they face is the volume of transactions they have to manage each day. There are appointments with doctors and labs for tests, purchasing of medicines, medical devices and insurance, and keeping a log of their test results.
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- Health Care
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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Vaccines prevented 37 million deaths in LMICs in the last 20 years
These are the findings of the most comprehensive study of the impact of vaccination programmes yet undertaken, published today in The Lancet.
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- Coronavirus, Health Care
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- vaccines
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Scale up of Healthcare Innovations for Low- and Middle-Income Countries
A strategic Collaborative Agreement to support the scaling up of healthcare innovations in low- and middle-income countries has been signed between the World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Development Innovation Alliance (IDIA).
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- Health Care
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Donors Back Tech Over Aid to Feed Hungry World
Food donors want to deliver cutting-edge technology to poor farmers in place of aid in a bid to cut waste, preserve precious land - and make themselves redundant.
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- Agriculture, Health Care, Technology
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- blockchain, e-commerce
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Analysis: Humanitarian Crises Monitoring: Coronavirus in Developing Countries: Secondary Impacts
Developing countries face disastrous healthcare setbacks, hunger and huge international debt as covid-19’s ‘final wave.’
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- Coronavirus, Health Care
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