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Contest For Biz Students Is All About Umbilical Cords
Business students are used to thinking about how to sell a new shampoo or a new app for a phone. Last week they were asked to put their strategic brains to another use: Figuring out the best way to convince health workers and new parents in Nigeria to apply a potentially life-saving antiseptic to the baby's umbilical cord stump.
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- Health Care
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For refugee camps, a waterless toilet to improve health and safety
Now, an MIT spinout, change:WATER Labs (is) developing a compact, evaporative toilet for homes without power or plumbing. Because sewage is mostly water, it’s possible to rapidly vaporize it, eliminating up to 95 percent of daily sewage volumes.
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- Health Care
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UN Sustainability Goals: A Road Map for Impact Investing
Equity investors are increasingly thinking about how their decisions affect society. The United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) provide a good road map for identifying investments that can make an impact—and generate profits as well.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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- ESG, impact investing, SDGs
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India’s Medical Tourism Gets Africa’s Attention
Nagged by a sharp back pain three years ago, Abidemi Ogbonna from Lagos, Nigeria, decided to visit a nearby hospital called Apollo. Thinking it was just a minor problem, she was shocked when her physician informed her that she urgently needed a kidney transplant.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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Kenya’s BitPesa Closes $2.5M Funding Round
Kenyan digital currency payments platform BitPesa has closed a US$2.5 million series A funding round, with a view to expanding its services further across West and Southern Africa, as well as in the UK and Europe.
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- Investing, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- digital payments, fintech
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This Mysterious $2 Billion Biotech Is Revealing the Secrets Behind Its New Drugs and Vaccines
In a recent morning meeting of scientific leaders at Moderna Therapeutics, conversation swerved toward the philosophical. Biochemist Melissa Moore, recently hired to head RNA research at the Boston-area biotech, had something on her mind: hype.
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- Health Care
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- vaccines
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Airtel plans Africa stakes sales in bid to reduce debt, stay afloat
The Indian parent company of struggling mobile operator Airtel Kenya is set to sell stakes or merge some of its African units in a bid to stay afloat and reduce its debt burden.
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- Uncategorized
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- fintech
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Corporate Aid Can Revive India’s Ailing Public Healthcare System
Despite the rapid growth of the private sector, the government has been unable to employ its services in providing quality healthcare across all segments of society. And we need to ask why!
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- Health Care
- Region
- South Asia
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- public health
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