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Analysis: How Governments Can Redesign Support for Entrepreneurs After COVID-19
In the wake of COVID-19, most governments face unprecedented unemployment. This is particularly challenging in developing economies, which lack robust social safety nets and where unemployment and poverty were pronounced before the pandemic.
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- Coronavirus, Health Care
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- employment, startups
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How Drones May Become Instrumental in South Africa’s Health Services
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles have been used for decades for medical supply deliveries and distributing and food aid to disaster-hit areas. Siyabonga Kamnqa looks at where and how drone technology is used in South Africa’s healthcare services.
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- Health Care, Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Analysis: COVID-19 Shows Need to Close Financial Inclusion Gender Gap
In many parts of the world, women have had less access to financial services than men for years. The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the challenge.
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- Coronavirus, Finance, Health Care
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Kenyan E-Health Startup TIBU Raises Seed Funding Round to Help It Scale
Kenyan e-health startup TIBU, a digital platform that decentralises primary outpatient care to bring it directly to patients, has raised a seed funding round to help it scale its operations.
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- Health Care, Investing
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- impact investing, scale, startups
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Analysis: Here Are 3 Ways Businesses Can Build Vaccine Confidence
The past year has provided a sobering glimpse of life in a world ravaged by infectious disease. A world in which lives, livelihoods and entire economies are devastated by a rapidly expanding global pandemic.
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- Coronavirus, Health Care
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- employment
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Mumbai-Based VAV Lifesciences to Supply Key COVID Vaccine Ingredient to Pfizer, Moderna
Mumbai-based VAV Lifesciences is the only domestic firm in the COVID-19 vaccine supply chain with this crucial ingredient.
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- Coronavirus, Health Care
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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- vaccines
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Analysis: COVID-19 Pushes India’s Middle Class Toward Poverty
The pandemic sent 32 million people in India from the middle class last year. Now a second wave is threatening the dreams of millions more looking for a better life.
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- Coronavirus, Health Care
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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COVID-19 Pandemic Leads to Drop Of Maternal Health Care in Africa
While almost every country has experienced disruption to its health services since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, several countries in Africa have been severely impacted, leading to the suspension of maternal, neonatal, and child health care.
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- Coronavirus, Health Care
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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