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In Treating Ebola, Even Using a Stethoscope Becomes a Challenge
Doctors treating Ebola patients while wearing “the full spacesuit” — protective gear, including waterproof hoods — are struggling with a clinician’s dilemma: what to do if they can’t use one of the oldest, most basic tools in medicine — a stethoscope.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Firms Adopt Visa Digital Payment Card in Nigeria
Chams Mobile and Skye Bank Plc have signed an agreement to launch the Virtual Visa Card in Nigeria.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Viewpoint: Suing Uganda for ‘Brain Drain’
According to recent data from Uganda's parliament, the country has 1 doctor per 24,725 people and 1 nurse per 11,000 people, both well below guidelines from the World Health Organization. By contrast, Trinidad and Tobago has 12 doctors and 35 nurses per 10,000 people.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- public health
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iHub Partners with Chase Bank for Innovation in Kenya’s Financial Services
Kenyan incubator the iHub has partnered Chase Bank in an arrangement that will see the two organisations collaborate on advancing the country’s tech ecosystem and offering more innovative services to the bank’s customers and the general public.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Tugende secures $780K to fill Uganda’s roads with motorcycle taxi drivers
With an interesting take on making profit through social good, affordable motorcycle startup Tugendehas announced that it’s closed a round of US$780 000.The Ugandan-based company describes itself as a for-profit social enterprise that offers an affordable lease-to-own model to help motorcycle taxi drivers own bikes in 18 months or less. The business model seems pretty sleek and has in 2014 grew 300% to over 700 active customers.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- transportation
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Orange and Ecobank form African m-banking partnership
Orange has struck a deal with Ecobank that will enable customers in several African countries to transfer money between accounts with the telco and financial services group through their mobile phones.
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Here’s where Africa’s payments revolution should be happening today
In emerging markets, mobile money services have the power to simplify lives, offering people the convenience of paying from anywhere and at any time, but also to transform them, playing a social noble role by addressing the unbanked or underserved population in Africa, offering them payment services they did not have access to before.
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A Failed Trial in Africa Raises Questions About How to Test H.I.V. Drugs
The surprising failure of a large clinical trial of H.I.V.-prevention methods in Africa — and the elaborate deceptions employed by the women in it — have opened an ethical debate about how to run such studies in poor countries and have already changed the design of some that are now underway.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa