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Mobile Phone Usage to Drive Africa’s Economy
Information communication technologists are optimistic that mass mobile phone usage launched in Africa, will drive the continent’s economy and make the millennial generation to become the leading tellers of the emerging app economy.
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- Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Government, Ghana Medical Association Negotiations Break Down
Ghana's health sector is destined for serious crisis this week as attempts to resolve the current strike by public health sector doctors failed to yield any positive results.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- public health
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Africa: Workshop Enhances Use of Mobile Phones to Detect Diseases
Health experts from the African continent and beyond are meeting in Tanzania at a workshop to enhance community-based disease outbreak detection and response in East and Southern Africa.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Report: Kenya “clear hub” for impact investing in East Africa
Kenya is the clear hub for impact investing in East Africa, accounting to more than half the impact capital deployed in the region, according to new research by the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) and Open Capital Advisors.
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- Impact Assessment
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- impact investing
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Zimbabwe Caps Bank Interest Rates At 18 Percent
Zimbabwe's central bank on Wednesday capped lending rates for finance institutions at 18% and moved in to reform the banking sector in a bid to improve economic activity and enhance stability.
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- Uncategorized
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- governance
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Experimental gel partially protects against genital herpes
An experimental vaginal gel containing a drug used to treat the AIDS virus could prevent half of cases of genital herpes, according to a study done in South Africa. Among women who used tenofovir gel, the annual rate of infection with the genital herpes virus, known as herpes simplex virus type 2 or HSV-2, was 10.2 percent versus a rate of 21 percent for women who used a placebo gel.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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New Trust ‘Kuwa True’ Campaign Goes Live
A super-hip campaign brings a condom brand back from the brink in Kenya.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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OPINION: What ‘100 Percent Effective’ Means for That Ebola Vaccine
Lat week, the medical journal the Lancet published preliminary results on the efficacy of an Ebola vaccine in Guinea, and everybody got really excited – especially about one particular figure. The vaccine, the results suggested, was 100 percent effective at protecting against Ebola ... But that number probably means less than you think it does.
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- Health Care
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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