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Masimo and Newborn Foundation Jointly Announce Mobile Health Initiative to Reduce Global Newborn Mortality
The Newborn Foundation’s BORN Project launches with new iSpO2 Rx mobile technology for early detection of health conditions in newborns in low-resource settings.
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- Health Care, Technology
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African Countries Make New Investments in Health
A significant trend in increased domestic investment in health by several African nations is highlighting efforts to fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria, combined with new contributions to the Global Fund.
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- Health Care
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In Latest Report, Professors Propose Health Investment Framework
A global public health report co-authored by Harvard University professor Lawrence H. Summers, School of Public Health Dean Julio Frenk, and Public Health professor Sue J. Goldie, among others, proposes an unprecedented investment framework to significantly reduce health disparities between the poorest and the wealthiest nations.
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- Health Care
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Philips partners Africa to promote maternal, child health
Over the years, efforts by most countries, including Ghana, to address high maternal and infant mortality rates as a step to meeting Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) Four and Five have yielded some results.
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- Health Care
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In a first, MFI customers to be given credit scores
For the first time in India, a credit bureau is offering scores to help understand the credit profile of microfinance customers.
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- Uncategorized
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Big banks see rich opportunities in world’s poorest
When the Afghan government used mobile phones instead of cash to pay some of its policemen, the officers thought they'd just had a 30 percent pay rise. In truth, they had just been paid the full amount, with nothing skimmed off by middlemen, for the first time.
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Mobile banking: will Kenya export its revolution to India?
The rise of a new generation of technologies performing many financial transactions from mobile phones is a game-changer, opening a new avenue for development. Kenya is probably the best model on the continent. But only specific conditions made it possible. Can this model be exported?
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Accion International urges India’s Reserve Bank to allow financial access to the physically disadvantaged
"People with disabilities should get financial access, organisation should not be discriminated against. The issues has to do with physical conditions and discrimination of specific conditions." - Accion International Managing Director
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- South Asia
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