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Gates-Backed NYC Startup Plumbs Soil Bacteria for Tuberculosis Therapy
Countless therapeutics – and certainly our earliest ones – were discovered from natural sources. Lodo Therapeutics, a new small molecule drug discovery startup based in New York City, is basing its platform on this premise: It will develop medicines that can be produced by uncultured soil bacteria and the human microbiome, chasing global health indications like tuberculosis.
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Ghana Microfinance Crisis Growing Into Security Crisis
Bono Ahafo Micro Finance crisis has grown into a security crisis as aggrieved clients demonstrate attack and threaten to stop financial institutions from operating.
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Brazil Cuts Vaccine Doses as Health System Under Pressure
Brazil has cut the number of doses for vaccinations given by the public health service to counter human papillomavirus (HPV) and pneumonia, as Latin America's largest economy looks to reduce health costs in the midst of a deep recession.
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India’s Postal Service Seeks to Serve as Banker to the Masses
The world's largest post office network is planning to ramp up its financial services across India, triggering a race among commercial banks to set up partnerships to reach remote areas that have been unprofitable.
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Cholera Vaccine Supply Set to Double, Easing Global Shortage
Globally, OCV production is low, with demands currently exceeding supply. Sudan and Haiti last year made requests to WHO for supplies of vaccines to conduct pre-emptive vaccination campaigns that could not be filled because of the global shortage.
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Sidestepping M-Pesa, BitPesa Partners With Airtel and MTN Money Mobile Wallets
Kenyan based Pan African bitcoin trading platform, BitPesa has partnered with Airtel and MTN Money mobile wallets weeks after Safaricom asked third party integrator Lipisha Consortium to sever ties with BitPesa.
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Prominent Healthcare Companies Partner With USAID
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) announced two new partnerships today to add resources and cutting-edge technologies to fight drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB). Janssen, the pharmaceutical arm of Johnson & Johnson, announced a $15-20 million pledge as part of a new partnership with USAID to combat Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis (MDR-TB). USAID will also partner with Cepheid, a maker of molecular systems and tests, to speed diagnosis of MDR-TB through increased access to rapid, accurate diagnostic tools.
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In 2016, Intel’s Entire Supply Chain Will Be Conflict-Free
Seven years ago, if you bought a new iPhone or a laptop, you were probably also inadvertently supporting warlords and mass rapists in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The country has some of the world's largest deposits of many of the tiny bits of metal, like tin and tungsten, that make up electronics, and they often came from mines whose profits were used to fund the country's ongoing, devastating civil war. Luckily, that's starting to change.
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