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Nikhil Pereira-Kamath Pioneers Healthcare Network in Africa
Nikhil Pereira-Kamath is on to something big, something really big in Africa. His passion for health care for those who need the most made his job easy to take a break from the Harvard Business School, and head to Africa to start Africa Healthcare Network.
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- Health Care
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- North America
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- public health
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Think scale! Engaging Private Pharmacies to Improve Public Health
Lisinopril 20 mg by mouth at 8am? Check. After verifying the patient’s identification, I scanned the medication barcodes into the computer one by one, performing the third and final, confirmation of the “five rights” of medication administration – right patient, right drug, right dose, right route, and right time. As a new nursing student these principles had formed a foundation of my fledgling practice.
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- Health Care
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- public health
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Nikhil Pereira-Kamath Pioneers Healthcare Network in Africa
Nikhil Pereira-Kamath is on to something big, something really big in Africa. His passion for health care for those who need the most made his job easy to take a break from the Harvard Business School, and head to Africa to start Africa Healthcare Network.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Mastercard Commits to Financially Including Over 150,000 Kenyan Merchants With Masterpass QR
Mastercard commits to empowering over 150,000 Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) in Kenya within 2017 by giving them access to Masterpass QR. The mobile driven, Person-to-Merchant payment solution will be introduced through various financial institutions and other partners in the market from February onwards.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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In Delivery Drones, Scrappy Can Beat Costly
A drone named Frankenstein may hold important lessons for the use of unmanned aerial vehicles, or UAVs, in humanitarian aid, development or environmental conservation.
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- Health Care, Technology
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Accion Venture Lab Marks Second Successful Exit, Driving Social and Financial Impact from Investment in Clip
Accion Venture Lab, the seed-stage investment initiative of financial inclusion leader Accion, announced today that it has marked its second successful exit, further demonstrating the potential for early stage investments to generate social and financial returns. Venture Lab has sold its stake in Clip, a Palo Alto and Mexico City-based company that provides cost-effective and efficient digital payment solutions to the often financially underserved segment of micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) in Mexico.
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- Investing
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- Latin America
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Artoo Partners with Microfinance Institution Grameen Koota in India
Grameen Koota, a pioneer in rural lending, is expanding its product portfolio and venturing into Individual lending for its rural customer base. To this end, it has partnered with FinTech firm Artoo to develop a digital lending model to launch Individual business loans. Artoo’s intelligent digital platform will enable it to go paperless and reduce loan approval and go-to-market time significantly.
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- Technology
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- South Asia
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How the mobile can power digital India
The call for digital cash, or going cashless, has never been as loud and clear as it has been in the past two months across India. One of the positive impacts of demonetisation has been the exploration of alternate methods of payment such as credit and debit cards, online money transfer and payments, use of e-wallets, digital transaction apps such as BHIM, etc. The various means of digital payments have made life a little easier.
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- Technology
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- South Asia
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