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This Startup Wants to Get Cameroon Talking About Sex
“Many people in Africa lack access to basic information regarding sexual health because of the taboo that surrounds the topic.” That’s according to Cameroonian entrepreneur Adamou Nchange Kouotou, founder of Africa Health Initiative – the creator of Kalanda app.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Center for Financial Services Innovation Unveils Framework for Responsible Industry-Wide Sharing of Consumer Financial Data
The Center for Financial Services Innovation (CFSI) today released its guide for the responsible sharing of consumer financial data: "Consumer Data Sharing Principles: A Framework for Industry-Wide Collaboration."
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CGAP, Citi Foundation Launch Digital Financial Inclusion Policy Program in China, Indonesia, Philippines
CGAP (Consultative Group to Assist the Poor), a US-based, nonprofit research center that aims to facilitate the expansion of financial access, and the Citi Foundation, the charitable arm of US-based financial services firm Citigroup, recently launched the “East Asia Digital Financial Inclusion Program”. The program’s goal is to engage policymakers in China, Indonesia and the Philippines to bring best practices relating to digital financial services to and from other parts of the world.
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- Impact Assessment
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- digital payments
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11 Health Innovations to Drastically Cut Maternal and Child Mortality Rates
Achieving the ambitious target to end maternal and child deaths, enshrined in the sustainable development goals (SDGs), will require ingenuity. The good news is that 11 health innovations could save more than 6 million mothers and children by 2030, if they are invested in and used widely in 24 priority countries.
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- Health Care, Impact Assessment
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Are Altered Mosquitoes a Public Health Project, or a Business?
The fight against dengue and Zika in Latin America is turning into a contest between mosquito-altering technologies, and between profits and public health. Nonprofits and corporations are in a race to fight dengue and Zika.
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- Health Care
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- Latin America
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Chemonics and BanQu Partner to Test Blockchain’s Potential to Eliminate Poverty and Improve Aid Effectiveness
On October 17, 2016, international development consulting firm Chemonics and technology company BanQu established the Blockchain for Development Solutions Lab. The lab represents the first concerted effort by a development company to build, test, and scale blockchain solutions to reduce poverty and increase aid effectiveness.
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South Africa: Automated Medicine Dispenser Wins Samsung Prize
A new automated chronic medicine dispensing system is on the way. The Technovra system took first place at the Samsung South Africa Launching people- Mixed Talents competition, it is a pilot project for the national Department of Health.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Global Microscope Highlights Gains in Financial Inclusion and Digitization of Financial Services
Financial inclusion is now on the global agenda and is understood to be a critical foundation in the improvement of livelihoods, according to The Economist Intelligence Unit's (EIU) 2016 Global Microscope on Financial Inclusion. More than half of the 55 countries studied improved their enabling environment for financial inclusion in all areas in the past year.
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