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Rockefeller backs Africa push by Mainstream
The family foundation of the wealthy Rockefeller dynasty has emerged as a backer of an energy project in Africa that's being spearheaded by Eddie O'Connor's Mainstream Renewable Power firm.
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This SA startup uses tech to make healthcare lean
In a private healthcare clinic in Johannesburg CBD, a local startup is employing technology to make South African healthcare provision more lean. GetHealth was launched in February of last year, with its clinic opened in September 2015. Since then, over 4,000 people have come through its doors to experience the leaner, more efficient provision of healthcare the startup has to offer.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- public health
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Collegian’s Nonprofit Empowers Needy Africans Via Entrepreneurship
As an American high school student, John Cefalu never imagined he would be in the business of creating entrepreneurs in Africa, but a trip to Kenya changed his worldview.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Four scientists win a prize for aiding health, nutrition
Four scientists — three of them in Africa — have won US $250,000 for combined success in improving nutrition and health through combating vitamin A deficiency in vulnerable populations.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- nutrition
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This Bill Gates-backed fund wants to ‘disrupt’ vaccine delivery in poor countries
At the very top of a tall glass building, in a room overlooking Lake Geneva and Mont Blanc, a group of entrepreneurs are working on new ways to get vaccines to the people who need them most.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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How the UN is using cellphones to improve conditions for Boko Haram victims
Since the conflict heightened in 2009, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) estimates “more than 20,000 people have been killed, and over 2,000 women and girls have been abducted. 2.5 million people have fled their homes, of whom 2.2 million are internally displaced, and 177,000 are seeking refuge in the neighbouring countries of Cameroon, Chad and Niger.”
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Rwanda: Babyl Launches Digital Healthcare System
A new digital health care system for patients to access doctors through their mobile devices was introduced yesterday at the opening of this year's trade exhibition in Gikondo, Kigali.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Africa Tops 500m Mobile Users, Adds $150bn To Continent’s Economy
Africa now has half a billion mobile users, and the mobile ecosystem added $153-billion to the African economy in 2015, according to a new GSMA study, which predicts smartphone numbers will triple in the next five years.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa