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ChildFund, MasterCard Foundation, launch nurse-training program for Zambian youth
Innovative $7.6 million e-learning program will train 6,000 young people to become nurses and midwives and expand capacity of nursing schools in Zambia.
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- Education, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Ebola outbreak could infect 20,000 people, WHO says
The Ebola epidemic in West Africa could infect over 20,000 people and spread to more countries, the U.N. health agency said on Thursday, warning that an international effort costing almost half a billion dollars is needed to overcome the outbreak.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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GSK Announces Commitment to Improving Access to Vaccines With 5-year Price Freeze
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has announced that it will freeze the prices of its vaccines for five years for developing countries that graduate from GAVI Alliance support. By committing to offer GAVI Alliance prices for vaccines against pneumonia, diarrhoea and cervical cancer, GSK will support developing country governments as they transition to financing the full cost of their local vaccination programmes.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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USIBC Concludes Successful Pharmaceutical Mission to India
The U.S.-India Business Council (USIBC) has concluded its Pharmaceutical Executive Mission to Delhi, India. The delegation expressed its commitment to the Indian market, called for further dialogue with the government on issues related to pricing and intellectual property, and discussed strategies for expanding greater access to healthcare and health insurance in India.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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India PM Launches Financial Inclusion Plan
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday launched Jan Dhan Yojana, a mega financial inclusion plan under which bank accounts and RuPay debit cards with inbuilt insurance cover of Rs 1 lakh will be provided to crores of persons with no access to formal banking facilities.
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- Uncategorized
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East Africa: Safaricom Gets GSMA Support in Mobile Cash War With Equity
Safaricom has received critical support in its bid to stop Equity Bank from using embedded SIM cards for the mobile banking and money transfer service the lender plans to introduce in the Kenyan market.
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- Uncategorized
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Artisanal chocolate shop focuses on education
Introducing Michael Sacco, the founder of ChocoSol, a learning community/social enterprise that focuses on making the ‘food of the gods’ – commonly known as cacao – into fresh, whole food, stone ground chocolate on an artisanal scale.
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- Agriculture
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- Latin America
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The Financial Inclusion Game Changer
Today, MasterCard is launching a ground-breaking program in Nigeria with the cooperation of the Nigerian government. This program uniquely combines a national ID card with electronic payments. Daniel Monehin, MasterCard’s Division President for Sub-Saharan Africa, sat down with MPD CEO Karen Webster to discuss why today is a such significant day in payments for Nigeria and why this program has the potential to be the financial inclusion game changer everywhere in the world.
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- Uncategorized
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- Sub-Saharan Africa