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Expanding Access to HIV Self-Testing
PSI just launched the report “Expanding Access to HIV Self-Testing: A Market Development Approach.” This report is the result of the exciting work PSI is doing to understand and develop the HIV self-testing (HIVST) market.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Kenya’s Commercial Bank of Africa gears up for expansion into Rwanda
Rwanda’s central bank says it is processing a licence application by Commercial Bank of Africa (CBA) to enter the country by March. Rwanda’s central bank governor John Rwangombwa was quoted in a Rwandan publication saying the National Bank of Rwanda is in the final stages of licensing the Kenyan headquartered CBA to operate in the country.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Viewpoint: Embracing Digital Healthcare in Kenya
The digital revolution is upon us. Over the years we have seen technology become embedded across many industries ranging from banking, telecommunications, retail, insurance and even Government. Kenya is no stranger to this digital revolution, with mobile money platforms allowing those who were previously financially disenfranchised access to financial services.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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VIEWPOINT: Liberia has to work with international private school companies to protect children’s future
Our communities are still suffering from the effects of the long civil war and the devastating Ebola outbreak. Less than 60% of school-aged children in Liberia are in school, placing Liberia in the lowest percentile of net enrollment rates in the world. Those who do attend school may not fare much better: among adult women who reached fifth grade in Liberia, less than 20% can read a single sentence.
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- Education
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Nigeria: New Malaria Vaccine Shows Efficacy, Safety in Humans
A next-generation vaccine that uses a weakened form of a malaria parasite has shown efficacy and safety in a small number of humans, according to a new study published in Science Translational Medicine. With this development researchers of the vaccine called GAP3KO might have achieved a milestone in malaria vaccine development.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- public health
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Viewpoint: This is how to create inclusive growth for an Aspiring Africa
The “Africa Rising” narrative is increasingly giving way to that of “Aspiring Africa”, as the Base of the Pyramid (BoP) shrinks and the new middle class burgeons. Central to this new narrative is inclusive growth: the idea that economic growth must come with equitable opportunities for all participants, with benefits enjoyed by every section of society.
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Mamaope, Uganda’s Lifesaving Jacket
According to UNICEF, in Sub-Saharan Africa, pneumonia kills half a million children aged five and below every year; this accounts for half of all global deaths of children under five from pneumonia. But unlike HIV/AIDS and measles, pneumonia does not get the attention it needs to be prevented, managed, and treated. This despondent fact inspired a young Ugandan boy to become a beam of hope to thousands of kids who are left at the mercy of this disease, through the invention of a biochemical smart jacket, which detects pneumonia 3 to 4 times faster than the orthodox doctors’ detection. This life jacket, that will save thousands of children yearly, is called “Mamaope” or “Mother’s hope”, in tribute to the 27,000 Ugandan kids that lose their fight to Pneumonia yearly in Uganda.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Mobile Technology Takes Fight Against HIV in Lesotho to the People
Maboe Ntsime remembers well the ordeal she used to go through to receive the regular treatment she and her six-year-old son, Motsamai, depend on as people living with HIV.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa