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African Hub Set Up to Boost Research Autonomy
African scientists look set to gain greater control over research in their own countries, if an ambitious plan for a regional hub to award grants and develop research capacity bears fruit.
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- Education, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- impact investing, research
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Uganda: Central Bank to Investigate MTN
Bank of Uganda (BoU) officials are planning a major investigation into MTN Mobile Money dealings following an expose by The Independent.
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- Uncategorized
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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The Social Media Network Saving Lives, No Internet Needed
At one of India’s most prestigious tech universities, IIT Delhi, assistant professor in technology for development Aaditeshwar Seth has been spearheading a social media network for the country’s rural and largely poor population—no Internet required.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- South Asia
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MIT Alum Hopes to Spread Tech-Boom Excitement in Young, Increasingly Connected Middle East
Some of the Middle East’s most promising entrepreneurs and deep-pocketed investors gathered at the Habtoor Grand Hotel here last month for the sixth edition of the ArabNet Digital Summit, one of the largest forums for the Middle East’s burgeoning startup industry.
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- Technology
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- North Africa & Near East
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- impact investing
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Oral Antibiotics Are Found to Save More Infant Lives
While vaccines, mosquito nets and other health measures have saved millions of children younger than 5 in the last decade, death rates from pneumonia, sepsis and meningitis among babies in the first weeks of life have remained stubbornly high.
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- Health Care
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- vaccines
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Michael Bloomberg Fights Big Tobacco in Uruguay
Michael Bloomberg is a man on a mission. This, of course, isn't the first "noble cause" he's latched on to but the "evil" of tobacco is something he feels particularly strongly about.
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Budget Cuts and Vaccine Fears Threaten Health Progress
Cuts to global health research budgets and people’s wariness of vaccines could hamper efforts to improve health around the world, two separate reports have warned in the run-up to World Health Day, which is marked today.
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- Education, Health Care
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Rajasthan’s Karma Healthcare Bags Funding to Bring Telemedicine to Villages
Indian rural healthcare startup Karma Healthcare has raised an undisclosed amount in pre-series A round from impact fund Ankur Capital and an unnamed international VC firm.
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- Health Care
- Region
- South Asia
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- impact investing
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