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Mobile tech on the Africa health frontier
Billions have been spent to bring AIDS medicines to patients in Africa, but a technology with just as much lifesaving potential can be had for pennies: the text message.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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OPINION: New World Bank safeguards are pushing more money out the door at the expense of the poor
Last week, the World Bank released a draft of its proposed new environmental and social safeguards.
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PRESS RELEASE: USAID and Rockefeller Foundation Announce $100 Million Global Resilience Partnership in Africa and Asia
?WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and The Rockefeller Foundation announced today a $100 million Global Resilience Partnership that lays out a bold new vision for building resilience to chronic stresses and increasing shocks in communities across Africa and Asia.
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Health insurance comes to Nigeria through mobile phone subscriptions
Quality healthcare is often out of reach for many living in rural areas, but MTN in Nigeria initiated as program together with Nigeria’s National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) to provide affordable healthcare to its subscribers in the country.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Smartphones, apps reshaping the health sector
WASHINGTON: Your smartphone is not only your best friend, it's also become your personal trainer, coach, medical lab and maybe even your doctor.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- South Asia
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Gemalto, GSMA drive African mHealth initiative
Gemalto has announced its partnership with (global System for Mobile Communication Association (GSMA1) to drive the pan-African mHealth Initiative (PAMI).
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Safaricom move to open up M-pesa agent network seen to aid mobile money services
Safaricom's move last week to allow agents for its M-pesa mobile money service to work for rival operators is broadly being viewed as having the potential to further fuel the growth of such services.
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Mobile health in Africa: MDiabetes program: Mobile technologies are catalysts for development
Mareeg.com-DAKAR, Senegal,July 14, 2014/ – Alcatel-Lucent (http://www.alcatel-lucent.com) attended the ceremony for launching the m-Ramadan campaign, which originated from the mDiabetes program, in Dakar on June 16, 2014.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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