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Child marriage seen as a girl’s health issue
The development community is starting to pay closer attention to the problem of child marriages.
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- Education, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Portable telemedicine device for medics
A robust portable device for monitoring vital signs and providing communications for medics developed with the support of ESA offers a lifeline even in the remotest areas on Earth via satcoms.
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- Health Care
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WHO guidance ‘risks killing children’
Rapid fluid resuscitation of children in shock can cause death, a major trial showed in 2011, but the World Health Organisation has yet to update its advice to doctors, say scientists, warning thousands could be harmed
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- Education, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Doctors Without Borders Pioneers Opening Up Access to Humanitarian Data
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is pioneering an open-access approach within the humanitarian sector in the hope that other medical aid organisations will follow suit.
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- Education, Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Financial inclusion in India: The march of banks
People are yet to see a bank in their neighbourhood. But RBI is set to change all that.
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- Uncategorized
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- South Asia
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Growth Of Payroll Cards Brings Financial Inclusion For Unbanked Americans
According to a recent Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) survey, more than 68 million Americans live day to day in a cash-only economy.
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- Uncategorized
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Smartphone uptake boosts mobile banking
The growing demand for smartphones, mass adoption of cashless services and hotspot services that provide free Wi-fi to customers has resulted in the expansion of the mobile wallet industry, according to a new report.
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- Education, Technology
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- mobile finance, research
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Will Nigerians embrace mobile money in 2014 ?
In the bid to deepen financial inclusion across the country, financial institutions and mobile money service providers are introducing resourceful methods of bringing the unserved populations into the formal economy by using mobile phones but Nigerians appear unfazed about the mobile money mantra.
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- Uncategorized
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- Sub-Saharan Africa