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Price for TB Drug Too High, Unaffordable, MSF Says
International medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) have expressed concern over the high price announced for new tuberculosis (TB) drug, delamanid.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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A $2 Test Might Have Helped This Man With HIV Avoid Daily Spinal Taps
His body wasted from AIDS, Fred Muzaya sat up in his bed on a January morning at Mulago Hospital in Kampala, Uganda, and faintly smiled at a doctor he couldn't see.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Framework Unveiled to Raise Financial Literacy
A national financial education framework has been launched to address money literacy and consumer protection challenges.
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- Uncategorized
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Social Enterprise Ghana Launches First Industry Group
Social Entrepreneurs Ghana (SE Ghana) is being launched by a number of social entrepreneurs and organizations including Reach for Change, the British Council, Impact Hub, Growth Mosaic, TEDxAccra, mPedigree, TANOE, Street Library, Challenging Heights, Ashesi University, AACT, Nneka Foundation, Farmable, CRESSENT, InnoHuB, phinklife, Kokroko foundation, GEW and Center for Social Innovation.
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- Uncategorized
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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About 70% of Ghana’s ‘Susu’ Collectors Are Operating Illegally
Out of an estimated 1,500 Susu collectors operating in the country, with a client base of over 2 million, only 472 of them (representing 31 percent) are formally licenced under the self-regulation scheme, making t activities of the rest illegal.
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- Uncategorized
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- lending, microfinance
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Samsung to Launch Pasha Centre-Like Digital Villages In Kenya, Others
Samsung said that it will be launching Pasha Centers-Like Digital Villages in Kenya, Ethiopia and Tanzania this year that will focus on the challenges in undeserved and rural communities, provide people in this areas with access to ICT so they can learn about and utilize educational and health solutions, reports Footprint to Africa.
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- Energy, Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Africa’s Big Banks Are Betting on Fintech Startups and Bitcoin to Beat Disruption
African banks have been late to the fintech party, but after leaving huge swaths of the population to get their financial services from telcos(most famously Safaricom’s M-Pesa in Kenya), banks here are increasingly seeing the continent as a testing ground for new financial technologies like bitcoin and the blockchain.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- digital payments, fintech
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Sanergy, Inc., Which Wastes Not, Secures $1.7 million
Sanergy, Inc., a social enterprise that makes prefabricated concrete toilets that turn human waste into fertilizer, has raised $1.7 million to expand operations in Nairobi, where it is headquartered.
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- Investing
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- impact investing, waste
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