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German Company Wins Inaugural EU Prize For Innovative Vaccine Technology
The European Commission offered the prize, worth EUR2 million, to encourage inventors to overcome one of the biggest barriers to using vaccines in developing countries: the need to keep them stable at any ambient temperature.
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- Education, Health Care
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- Europe & Eurasia
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Coca-Cola invests in ‘Engine’ initiative to help young women in Nigeria
The Coca-Cola Company and the UK Department for International Development (DFID) have joined forces to bolster the educational and economic opportunities of more than 10,000 marginalised girls and young women in Nigeria.
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- Education
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Health insurers go for bottom of the pyramid
It is now possible for low-income earners to flash a smart card when seeking treatment from selected Government hospitals, faith-based health facilities or public health centres. This follows the entry of several underwriters into the low-income medical insurance business.
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- Health Care
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Smartphone app reads blood oxygen levels to hospital standards, advances to global obstetrics tests
Private and public investors are injecting $2 million into a Canadian mobile health innovation that offers hope of preventing thousands of deaths and improving the health of expectant mothers, newborns and children throughout the developing world.
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- Health Care
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India pledges new low-cost drugs to developing nations
Stressing that India's pharmaceutical technology was appropriate for Africa, Commerce Minister Anand Sharma said India is committed to making available to developing countries newer generation life-saving drugs also.
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- Health Care
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- supply chains, vaccines
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The Wello Smartphone Case Puts Health Data in the Palm of Your Hand
You may already know Wello as a personal training web service we reviewed last year, but now a health-tracking gadget called Wello wants to pull a Facebook Paper and make you forget all about that other Wello. Oh, well. (Sorry.)
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- Health Care
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Turning Africa’s Healthcare Challenges Into Opportunities
Most people are familiar with the problems facing the health sector in Sub-Saharan Africa faces: poor infrastructure, a shortage of healthcare workers, a lack of capacity in the existing workforce and substandard quality to name a few. These problems, coupled with inadequate public sector spending on health, have pushed the private sector to the front in the development of the African health sector.
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- Health Care
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This Social Enterprise Runs A Global Crowd-funding Platform; Eyes $3-5 Million In Series B Funding
Welcome to Milaap Social Ventures, a social enterprise operating from Bangalore and Singapore, which has developed an online crowd-funding platform to help the unbanked and the underprivileged masses in India. Simply put, Milaap (it means 'connecting together' in Hindi) offers an RBI-approved micro-lending platform that allows the organisation to receive 'loans' from all over the world.
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