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Race for a COVID-19 Vaccine: Will Emerging Economies Be Left Behind?
As various countries contend with a second wave of Covid-19 outbreaks, many emerging markets are pinning their hopes on a vaccine that will allow them to confidently reopen their economies without the fear of health services being overwhelmed.
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- Coronavirus, Health Care
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Press Release: Coalition Launches $100 Million PPE Initiative for Africa’s Community Health Workers
In the largest mobilization of private resources to protect Africa's frontline health workers from COVID-19, a new 30+-member coalition today announced it has begun delivering nearly 60 million pieces of personal protective equipment (PPE) to countries across sub-Saharan Africa in the initiative's first round.
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- Coronavirus, Health Care
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- public health
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VCs Get Behind Disaster Tech in Search for Innovative Life-Saving Technologies
Creating profitable growth and social impact through partnerships - here’s how VCs are supporting Disaster Tech
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- Coronavirus, Health Care, Technology
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Bill Gates Is Spending $150 Million to Try to Make a Coronavirus Vaccine as Cheap as $3
Pay more attention to what Gates is doing overseas than what he’s saying about the United States.
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- Coronavirus, Health Care, Investing
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- impact investing, vaccines
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At a Ugandan Factory, Workers Prove That ‘Periods Don’t Pause for Pandemics’
Following a Ugandan government directive, the team at AFRIpads faced a tough decision: shut down and sell off stocks, or transform the factory into a co-living space to remain in operation.
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- Coronavirus, Health Care
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Viewpoint: The Pandemic Pain of Emerging Markets
As COVID-19 continues its global march, the whole world is paying the price for some countries' negligent and incompetent political leadership and the virtual breakdown of the rules-based multilateral order. But emerging and developing economies are likely to suffer the most.
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- Coronavirus, Finance, Health Care
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- public health
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Viewpoint: Here’s Why Developing Countries Should Embrace Value-Based Healthcare After the Coronavirus Pandemic
Value-based healthcare (VBHC), a decades-old Harvard Business School paradigm may hold the key to building resilient, high-quality and equitable health systems of the future in developing nations.
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- Health Care
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- infrastructure
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VisionFund contributes to COVID-19 Aftershocks Report
Millions of parents and caregivers have lost incomes and jobs due to COVID-19, forcing them to expose their children to harmful and dangerous circumstances such as begging or child marriage. World Vision has conducted rapid assessments in 24 countries across Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Asia confirming alarming predictions of increased child hunger, violence, and poverty due to the economic impact of COVID-19.
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- Coronavirus, Health Care
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- SDGs
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