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How Innovative Financing and Partnerships Are Transforming the Infectious Disease Product Pipeline
A biotech company CEO approached me at a conference recently with a potential solution for a rapid point-of-care diagnostic for tuberculosis. This is a disease with nearly 9 million new cases and over a million deaths annually, a disease that desperately needs a rapid diagnostic since patients with active TB, if left undiagnosed, can infect an average of 10-15 additional people each year.
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- Asia Pacific
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Report: Cash Far More Popular Than Cards and Mobile Money Among Kenyan Online Shoppers
Only 1% of over 80,000 shoppers sampled in the 3rd quarter of this year used cards to pay for products they purchased online, 27 percent preferred to pay via mobile money transfer before or after delivery, while a whopping 72 percent preferred to pay in cash on delivery, according to an internal survey released by Kenyan e-tailer Jumia.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Zimbabwe: Boom Times Over for Mobile Telecoms
Economic slowdown and excessive regulatory fees and charges, an unpredictable environment and the extraordinary growth in social media platforms, are beginning to take their toll on the mobile phone industry.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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OPINION: For-profit and nonprofit integration: The road to financial sustainability
How can a social enterprise that is nonprofit aim to deliver sustainable impact if it can’t achieve financial sustainability? And is it possible in the 21st century for corporations not to incorporate social impact as part of their core business strategy?
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Rwanda accused of manipulating poverty statistics
Rwandan authorities manipulated the latest official statistics on poverty to make it look like it was going down, while much of the source data suggested it was actually on the increase, according to information obtained by FRANCE 24.
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Navigating Impact Investing: The Need for Greater Clarity and Efficiency
Demand for impact investing is surging - yet investors, even interested ones, have a hard time wrapping their heads around the practice.
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- Investing
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- impact investing, research
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Majors Announce Plan to Reduce Maternal, Newborn Mortality
Project ASMAN, a major healthcare initiative aimed at reducing infant, neonatal and maternal mortality in India was launched today by a consortium of leading private and development sector partners.
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Impact Investor Lotus Fund Teams Up With Vietnam’s Da Nang University to Launch Innovation Hub
Lotus Fund, an impact investing fund focused on Southeast Asia, has teamed up with the University of Da Nang’s College of Information Technology in Vietnam to launch Lotus Hub, an innovation space for entrepreneurs.
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