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Africa’s Meningitis A Vaccine: How Partnership Replaced ‘Big Pharma’
Four years after it was first used in a mass vaccination campaign, the MenAfriVac vaccine has achieved an extraordinary outcome; cases of meningitis A have dropped to almost zero in the epidemic belt across Africa.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- vaccines
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How Africa Is Hacking Its Energy Crisis
At a small dispensary in a village just outside Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, I stared in disbelief as I watched health care provider, Recho Mengo, expertly balance a cell phone in her mouth so that she could free her hands to measure a pregnant woman's belly. The phone's flashlight was providing the only source of light in a facility that has no power. I couldn't help but think back to my own pregnancy less than two years prior; the situations were like night and day.
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- Energy
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- renewable energy, solar
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GSK Sets 10-year Price Reduction For Pneumococcal Vaccines
The pharmaceutical gaint, GlaxoSmithKline has announced a 10-year steady reduction in price of pneumococcal vaccines to enable Nigeria continue to purchase vaccines at prices meant for low-income countries still dependent on support from the Global Alliance for Vaccine Initiative (GAVI).
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- vaccines
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Hyacinths and Sawdust Used to Combat Cooking Pollution
A brew made from sawdust and water hyacinth flowers may help reduce the millions of lives lost across the developing world from the fumes of ramshackle cooking equipment.
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- Energy, Environment, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Health-e News: Medicine Stock-Outs Are Hard to Diagnose
From the Eastern Cape to Limpopo, medicine shortages continue to be reported throughout South Africa. In a year in which it seems stock outs have become the new mystery disease, the shortages have difficult causes that are sometimes hard to pin down.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Airtel Tanzania Launches Free Mobile Money Transfer Service
Airtel Tanzania has launched a new mobile money offer that will see its customers send money free of charge to family and friends on Airtel network across the country.f
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Impact and Thematic Investing in Africa – A Cause for Concern
Almost half of all assets under investment in three of Africa's most significant economies are being invested for good in some way - but professional investors still have a long way to go in terms of practice and disclosure.
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- Investing
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- impact investing, research
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Zimbabwe’s Postal Service Enters Online Payments Game
Zimpost, the state-owned enterprise that owns and manages all local postal services, has introduced its own online payments and e-money platform.
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- Uncategorized
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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