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Patient Data Company Commits to the Business Call to Action While Expanding Low-cost Mobile Health Services in India
Company links health security with better medical outcomes
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- Health Care, Technology
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- South Asia
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Do For-Profit Schools Give Poor Kenyans A Real Choice?
Bridge International Academies has set up more than 200 schools in Kenya over the past four years, and plans to open 50 more in January. Using a school-in-a-box model, Bridge's founders say it gives primary schoolkids a quality education for roughly $5 a month.
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- Education
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Could Bitcoin connect the mobile money islands?
Pelle Braendgaard, co-founder of the Kipochi Bitcoin wallet and transfer service, believes the controversial digital currency could act as a facilitator between mobile money platforms.
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Accion’s Venture Lab Closes Two New Investments
Impact-investing initiative announces close of investments in seed-stage companies that provide payments, health care and microinsurance products to clients at the base of the pyramid.
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- Health Care
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Mobile Clinics Bring Health Care to South Africa Countryside
South Africa has a serious lack of healthcare facilities in rural areas. In many cases, people must walk for kilometers to reach the closest clinic. But some new solar-powered mobile clinics are changing that.
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- Energy, Health Care
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- solar
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8 Incredibly Effective Ways to Save Children from Preventable Deaths
How many children's lives can be saved with $1 million? That's the question posed to the eight finalists in the inaugural Caplow Children’s Prize, the biggest humanitarian prize for saving the lives of children.
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7M more healthcare workers needed to meet world demand
In order to meet demand for essential health services, the world needs at least 7.2 million more nurses, midwives and doctors, according to a new report by the Global Health Workforce Alliance and the World Health Organization, presented at the Third Global Forum on Human Resources for Health.
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- Education, Health Care
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Pneumonia responsible for 20% of child deaths
Global health bodies highlight essential interventions that will help reduce the incidence of pneumonia as the disease remains the single biggest killer of children under five globally. Pneumonia claims the lives of more than 1 million girls and boys every year despite pneumonia deaths being preventable.
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- Health Care