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A Failed Trial in Africa Raises Questions About How to Test H.I.V. Drugs
The surprising failure of a large clinical trial of H.I.V.-prevention methods in Africa — and the elaborate deceptions employed by the women in it — have opened an ethical debate about how to run such studies in poor countries and have already changed the design of some that are now underway.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Payment Banks: How It Is Possible to Build a Business Around Financial Inclusion
Dattaram, 50, earns Rs 9,000 a month doing domestic chores in three to four homes in a Mumbai neighbourhood.
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- Technology
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- South Asia
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South Africa Inventions Aim to Stop Slum Fires, Floods
South Africans social entrepreneurs have come up with inventions aimed at curbing deadly fires and floods in the country's crowded informal settlements.
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- Impact Assessment
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Mastercard Opens Tech Hub and Preps for Masterpass in India
MasterCard has opened its largest Tech Hub outside of the U.S. in Pune, India, and plans to roll out its mobile payments system in April, the card brand said on Wednesday (Feb. 4).
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- South Asia
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IDB to support BoP families in the Dominican Republic with access to credit for home improvements
Loan of up to $5 million has mobilized an additional $5 million through a B-loan syndication.
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- Latin America
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Artificially Intelligent Robot Scientist ‘Eve’ Could Boost Search for New Drugs
Eve, an artificially-intelligent 'robot scientist' could make drug discovery faster and much cheaper, say researchers writing in the Royal Society journal Interface. The team has demonstrated the success of the approach as Eve discovered that a compound shown to have anti-cancer properties might also be used in the fight against malaria.
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- Education, Health Care
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- research
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Ethiopia Launches Mobile Money Schemes to Extend Banking Reach
Ethiopian banks and microfinance firms are launching mobile money services, helping reach swathes of the population that now have little access to branches or services, the mobile technology providers and banks said.
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- Uncategorized
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- digital payments
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Could a $34 Smartphone Device Improve HIV Diagnosis in Africa?
A $34 device that plugs into the audio jack of a smartphone was nearly as effective as far more costly diagnostic blood testing equipment in identifying antibodies for HIV and syphilis in a pilot study in Africa, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa