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Tanzanian microinsurance startup Jamii prepares to expand across Africa
Tanzanian micro-health insurance startup Jamii will be expanding across Africa, on the back of grant money from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
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- Uncategorized
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Henry Ford Health System to help create new specialty hospital in India
Henry Ford Health System has signed a contract with Pearl Human Care Private Limited, an India-based company, to provide medical technology and related medical services to a planned 400-bed hospital in Tamil Nadu.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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PRESS RELEASE: USPTO Announces Patents for Humanity Winners
The U.S. Commerce Department’s United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) today announced the latest winners of the Patents for Humanity program. The Patents for Humanity program was launched by the USPTO in February 2012 as part of an Obama administration initiative promoting game-changing innovations to solve long-standing development challenges.
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- Health Care
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- innovation, public health
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Glass Raised to World’s First Social Enterprise Gin
The founders of Edinburgh-based Pickering's Gin have launched what they claim is the world's first social enterprise gin.
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- Impact Assessment
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- Europe & Eurasia
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Viewpoint: A Bold Bet By the US to End the World’s Most Neglected Diseases
This year, the U.S. government marks 10 years of commitment to fighting neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). This is a success story that has largely flown under the radar when instead we should be heralding the progress we have made toward an ambitious vision of a world free from NTDs.
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Ericsson, HomeSend Partner on Mobile Financial Services
Millions of users with Ericsson-powered mobile wallets will be able to send and receive money via a global network of remittance providers, cash agents and banks hubbed by Belgian firm HomeSend.
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- Technology
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Health Financing Through PPP Gets Nod of Experts
With Africa needing over US$30 billion to close the infrastructure deficit and in the light of dwindling Government expenditure on Healthcare, experts say it has become imperative that the private sector gets involved in closing these gaps.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Clean Drinking Water for All
Let us imagine this: Free, clean drinking water available for the masses, twenty four hours a day, three hundred and sixty five days a year. Statistics, reports and various articles are constant reminders of how the lack of clean drinking water is pervasive in Bangladesh. Thousands of lives are lost annually as a consequence of water borne diseases like diarrhea and cholera. In Dhaka, this densely populated capital city, hundreds and thousands of people belonging to lower income households have very little or no access to clean drinking water.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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