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$1.3B Lost to Five Diseases Every Year
Uganda will lose $1.3b in 14 years by 2030, which is about $92.8m (about 306b) annually, in treatment and loss of opportunity due to five preventable tropical diseases, new data at the World Economic Forum indicates.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Viewpoint: The Promise of Digital Health in LMICs
Having started my career as an emergency physician in countries across Africa — from Angola and Mozambique, to the Sudan and the Caucasus — I was regularly faced with long and often dangerous journeys to reach my patients. I would fly in by plane and then travel on my bike, crossing rivers — it was the only way they could receive the treatment and medical care they needed. Often I couldn’t stay for long, or sometimes I came too late.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Tech Mahindra Is the Third Entity to Drop Its Payments Bank Plan in India
Mahindras on Tuesday became the third entity to drop out of the payments bank race, saying business profitability would take longer time due to “aggressive posturing” by many deep-pocketed players.
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- Uncategorized
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Diagnosis App Scoops Africa Health Prize
An app that allows rural doctors to seek advice remotely from experts won Africa's first prize recognising new technology that boosts health on the continent.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Why the Vaccination Supply Chain Needs Reform
I recently returned from a week in Mozambique with a goal of learning about new immunization supply chain models and observing their impact. I also wanted to better understand opportunities and constraints for taking this work to scale -- in Mozambique and across other Gavi-eligible countries.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- supply chains, vaccines
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Uber Kenya and Sidian Bank Launch $100M Vehicle Solutions Programme
Uber and Sidian Bank announced today that they have partnered to launch an innovative Uber Vehicle Solutions Programme that will give driver-partners and business investors convenient and affordable access to the quality vehicles they need to start or grow their Uber-based businesses. This comes shortly after Uber celebrated 1 million rides taken in Kenya since its launch just 15 months ago.
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- Investing, Transportation
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Impact investing fund for students launched in Nigeria
Venture Kinetics, led by Jobberman founder Opeyemi Awoyemi, and Passion Incubator have partnered the launch the FastForward Student Innovation Fund, an impact investing fund focused on innovations of students or recent graduates of Nigerian universities.
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- Investing
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Report: Off-Grid Electricity, Mobile Money Could Help Plug Africa’s Rural Power Crunch
A combination of renewable energy sources off the national grids could be a solution to supplying electricity to rural areas across Africa, a report by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) showed on Monday.
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- Energy, Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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