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Women’s Cooperatives Ease Burden of HIV in Kenya
Seventy-three-year-old Dorcus Auma effortlessly weaves sisal fronds into a beautiful basket as she walks the tiny path that snakes up a hill. She wound up her farm work early because today, Thursday, she is required to attend her women’s group gathering at the secretary’s homestead.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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In Uganda, Doctor Just a Call or a Click Away
Uganda has just one doctor for every 25,000 people, and health care can be particularly hard to access in rural areas; but, a medical hotline is bridging the gap, using social media to allow Ugandans to talk directly with certified doctors and pharmacists.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Hatching A Generation of Eggpreneurs In Rural Kenya
While Gates was in Lower Manhattan recently talking about his plan to alleviate poverty by giving away chickens, Dickson was in Kenya hatching Eggpreneur, an initiative that helps rural mothers sell eggs for a living.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Mercy Corps, MasterCard Target 18,000 Women in Nigeria Financial Inclusion Strategy
Under the landmark initiative, over 2,000 young women have gone through the Mercy Corps/ MasterCard programme while more than 6,000 participants from across Mercy Corps programmes have been registered for the multi-functional eID card. About 100 participants have already received their card.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- mobile finance
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Ghana Parliament Speaker overrules proposals seeking to ‘ban’ mobile money services
The Speaker of Parliament, Edward Doe- Adjaho has ruled to disallow a proposed amendment by the Member of Parliament for New Juaben South, Dr. Mark Assibey –Yeboah, to the Banks and Special Deposit-taking institutions bill, currently at the consideration stage.
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The Earth Auger Toilet: A Solution For The Masses?
Sub-Saharan Africa remains one of the primary regions with the least improvement in accomplishing the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) on sanitation by 2015, with only a 30% coverage and an increase of 4% since 1990. In most parts of the region, open defecation is an easier and cheaper alternative, as improved sanitation facilities, which ensure hygienic separation of human excreta from human contact, are either non-existent or too expensive.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- innovation, public health
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Key African Anti-Venom About to Permanently Run Out
A particularly effective African anti-venom soon will be completely unavailable because its manufacturer decided it was not profitable. Remaining stocks of the drug expire at the end of June.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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How Barclays Aims to Bring a Billion Unbanked into the Fold
Though its parent company, the $1.8 trillion-asset Barclays PLC, has had operations in Africa for more than 100 years, today Barclays Africa has only 12 million customers, about 1% of the continent's total population.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa