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Gwynedd: Billionaire Microsoft boss Bill Gates funds $1.4m grant for firm’s vaccine cooler
Sure Chill Company receives support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for live-saving vaccination product
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Africa: Neglected Tropical Diseases Treatments Hit 1 Billion Mark
Washington — The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) May 8 celebrated its support of the delivery of 1 billion neglected tropical disease (NTD) treatments that are helping more than 465 million people in 25 countries in some of the world's poorest populations.
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CWC Launches Panama’s First Mobile Money Service
Cable & Wireless Panama (CWP) has launched MovilCash, Panama’s first mobile money service.
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Indian Mobile Payment Market Poised for Massive Growth
As an increasing number of Indian consumers obtain smartphones, experts are predicting more payments and money transfers will be made via mobile.
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Africa Progress Report Asks Governments To Promote Mobile Banking
A new report has urged African governments to emulate Kenya in supporting the development of mobile banking and electronic commerce to increase financial inclusion.
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Active client base of Islamic microfinance has exceeded two million
The demand of Islamic microfinance is rapidly increasing in order to serve poverty alleviation and social development, its active client size have exceeded to million million now from which more than 700,000 belong to Sudan and more than 400,000 clients of Islamic Microfinance Institutions are from Pakistan.
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‘Analytical approach’ needed to rethink investment in global health
To reduce overall mortality rates, where should global health investments go? It’s more about understanding the specifics that are the root causes of the mortality rather than whether to investment in this or that country, according to Dr. Mark Grabowsky, chief operating officer at the Office of the U.N. Secretary-General's Special Envoy for Financing the Health Millennium Development Goals and for Malaria.
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Circumcision and celebrities: scaling-up voluntary medical male circumcision
In Zimbabwe, an estimated 1.4 million people are living with HIV, a prevalence of 15 percent, according to UNAIDS estimates from 2012. Yet estimates today show only nine percent of males in Zimbabwe are circumcised – a low number when considering that male circumcision reduces female-to-male transmission of HIV by 60 percent.
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