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How AinFin is tackling poverty around the world by increasing access to financial services
The Level39-based fintech company wants to use its Swifin e-money platform to empower communities in Africa and around the world says chief executive and co-founder Dr. Joy Braun.
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Google buys Seattle health monitoring startup Senosis, bolstering digital health push
Patel, who founded Senosis Health with four other clinicians, researchers and tech transfer experts from the University of Washington, won a MacArthur genius grant in 2011 and his past innovations have ranged from energy meters to air quality sensors.
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- Health Care, Technology
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OPINION: Historic health plan led by Africans for Africans
The continent’s leading health figures debated and discussed a continent-wide campaign to tackle key bottlenecks to health solutions in Africa. At the heart of this was the clarion call to African governments to prioritize health care in their countries, to do more to retain local health professionals and curb the exodus of their skills to foreign markets, and for more investment in supporting African health research to ensure locally-relevant- and- led health solutions.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Fintech firm Payworld focuses on insurance, loans for growth
Payworld, a nine-year old fintech firm, provides digital transaction services like mobile recharge, e-payment, railway reservation and remittances facilities.
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- South Asia
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To Feed the World, Improve Photosynthesis
By reworking the basic metabolism of crops, plant scientists hope to forestall devastating food shortages.
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- Agriculture, Environment, Technology
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Turning Puffs Into Pesos
The Philippine’s Secretary of Health, Dr. Paulyn Rossell-Ubial, shares with Asian Scientist Magazine how her country has turned a tax on smoking into a health intervention.
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- Asia Pacific
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South Africa: Could Better Health for Your Baby Come in a Cardboard Box?
Almost 40% of pregnant women in South Africa's public health sector go for their first check-up only after their 20th week of pregnancy, figures from the Health Systems Trust's 2015/2016 District Health Barometer show.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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How to engage investors focused on profit in solutions for the poor
Folia Water created the first water filter that costs pennies not dollars, said Levine, whose company tagline is “Paper for Pennies. Water for Billions.” Each silver nanoparticle-coated filter paper provides clean drinking water to a family for an entire week. In a pitch to Silicon Valley investors, he focused primarily on the financial returns, explaining how his product presents a cheaper alternative to bottled water for the 3 billion people who spend $20 billion per year on household water.
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- Investing
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- public health, SDGs
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