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Bringing HIV Labs by Backpack to Rural Africa
Daktari is planning to roll out its portable CD4 tester in 2015 across sub-Saharan Africa. The Daktari device is part of a new wave of lab-in-a-backpack instruments that can bring diagnostic testing directly to patients and health workers in the developing world.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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How Gravity (And a Little Coagulant) Could Transform How Communities Clean Water
Purifying water is a problem as old as civilization. When people started living together in anything bigger than traveling bands of shepherds and hunters, potable water became a shrinking resource. The rotating belt of local oases or springs could satisfy you while you were constantly on the move but once you started needing the communal watering hole to keep your animals upright or your crops alive, cooperation became more tenuous and waterborne diseases became sundry. Getting sick from your drinking water was the tradeoff for settling down, and we’ve been repaying the debt ever since.
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- Agriculture
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- Latin America
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An Entrepreneurial 2015: How This Businessman Launched A $100m Programme
Tony Elumelu CON, is a Nigerian Entrepreneur, with over twenty years experience in the Banking and Investment sector in Africa. In the course of his career, Elumelu says he has met hundreds of entrepreneurs who carry in them the hope of Africa’s future. “Many of them young people with incredible dreams and business ideas but without the experience or the access to mentoring and support required in order to build a bankable business plan,” he said.With no access to the right resources and lack of know-how, the ideas remain dreams in the hearts of the young African population, while the continent’s growth is stifled by high rates of unemployment and poverty.But not for much longer.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Gates Foundation Donates $4.9m to SK Chemicals’ Vaccine Project
SK Chemicals Co., a petrochemical unit of South Korea's third-largest conglomerate SK Group, said Sunday it has received a donation of US$4.9 million from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for its project to develop a vaccine for typhoid fever.
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- Health Care
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- Asia Pacific
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Mahindra Comviva Powers India’s ‘First’ Health Care App by Telangana Government
The Telangana Government today announced the launch of India’s first dedicated health care app for the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare to provide citizens with convenient access to healthcare as part of its effort to fulfill the Digital India Initiative. The app which is powered by Mahindra Comviva, the global leader in providing mobility solutions was conceptualized by the Healthcare Innovation Cell (HIC) of the Ministry of Health.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- South Asia
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Videos Nominated for the Rusty Radiator Awards 2014
The Rusty Radiator Award goes to the fundraising video with the worst use of stereotypes. This kind of portrayal is not only unfair to the persons portrayed in the campaign, but also hinders long-term development and the fight against poverty.
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- Health Care
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Triotech Raises $3 Million From Singapore VC Firm Bluehill
Mobile payment services company Triotech Solutions has raised $3 million (nearly Rs 19 crore) from Singaporebased venture-capital firm Bluehill in its first round of funding.
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- Uncategorized
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- South Asia
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Incentive Program May Alter the Economics of Ebola Vaccines
Earlier this week, U.S. President Barack Obama signed into law a little piece of legislation that may significantly change the economics of making drugs or vaccines to protect against Ebola and other viruses in its deadly family.
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- Health Care
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