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Study: Cancer Drugs Less Affordable in Poor Nations Than US
Cancer drugs predictably cost much more in the U.S. than in poor countries and even other wealthy nations, but a study shows they are less affordable in some developing countries despite the lower price.
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The Innovative Finance Revolution
The costs of economic, social, and environmental problems compound over time, whether it’s an Ebola outbreak that escalates to an epidemic, a flood of refugees that tests the strength of the EU, or the rise of social inequalities that reinforce poverty.
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EcoCash removes transaction fees, makes mobile money payments free in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe is currently experiencing cash shortages and this has resulted in banks reducing withdrawal limits. Mobile money services like EcoCash have also been affected and some agents have run out of cash for some transactions.
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- Impact Assessment
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Price cap on medical devices could prove counterproductive, say doctors
Mansukhalal Suvalal, 77, travelled all the way from Ahmednagar, Maharashtra to Bengaluru, accompanied by his grandchildren, hoping to break his decade-long silence. In his battle with Stage IV throat cancer, he had lost his voice box after he underwent laryngectomy .
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Cash Is Costly in the Caribbean, Says Mastercard Study
A study commissioned by MasterCard indicates that nine out of 10 transactions in Jamaica are done by cash or cheques, underscoring the problem of costly informality, according to the global card company.
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Cameroonian inventor wins prize for handheld tablet bringing medicine to rural areas
Cardio Pad enables heart patients in remote areas to access healthcare without journeying to the cities where most heart specialists work.
Zang -- who won gold at the Africa Prize for the invention -- explains that the tablet comes with "four electrodes, which are attached to the patient's chest to determine whether their heart is functioning normally".- Categories
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Perspective: The Rapid Mainstreaming of Impact Investing
Amid all the noise about impact investing it can be difficult to get a clear read on what counts as fact or fiction. Yet each year the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) makes a critical contribution in the form of its comprehensive investor survey.
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Meet the ‘flying hospital’ fighting to save the broken hearts of Tanzania’s poor children
More than a million babies worldwide are born every year with a congenital heart defect. Of these, one tenth will not live to see their first birthday. While corrective surgery is normally performed within weeks of the birth, in Tanzania and other developing countries, poverty and a lack of cardiac specialists or facilities mean many go untreated.
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