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Press Release: Amref Health Africa in the USA Awarded $6M CDC Grant to Build Laboratory Systems in South Sudan
Amref Health Africa, the Ministry of Health of the Republic of South Sudan (RSS) and partners will manage a five-year (2015–2020) USD$ 6 million Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) grant aimed at building the capacity of laboratory and blood transfusion services to respond to health needs of the population of the RSS. The project's focus is to systematically strengthen the capacity of the National Public Health Laboratory to support country-wide laboratory services.
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East Africa: Online Banking Still a Challenge to Many Kenyans – Study
Online banking remains a challenge to many people even as the smart phone penetration in Kenya experiences substantial growth, according to a new survey.
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Shaking up global remittance market: Startups & telcos making money available at the click of smartphones
New tech startups and traditional telecom operators are taking advantage of the rapid rise of smartphones in many emerging economies to reduce the barriers - and costs - of sending cash overseas.
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Kenya Equity Bank targeting 100 million African customers for its mobile payment and banking service
Kenya's Equity Bank Ltd., which has started a new mobile payment and banking service called Equitel, is seeking 100 million customers in Africa within 10 years and the first five million by the end of 2015.
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Social Enterprise Leader Wants to Map Africa’s Future
Entrepreneur Vimbiso Mashumba says she feels privileged to be part of the 30 young people to represent Zimbabwe at the Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders.
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Ebola’s Long Shadow: West Africa Struggles to Rebuild Its Ravaged Health-Care System
J.J. Dossen Memorial Hospital, on the southeastern tip of this nation recently declared free of Ebola, has three doctors and spotty electricity. Sixteen of its 46 nurses left during the Ebola crisis. When two motorcycle accident victims needed X-rays, the hospital dispatched them in its only ambulance on a bumpy eight-hour ride to the nearest facility with a machine.
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Bill Gates, Dr. Paul Farmer, and African Tycoon Strive Masiyiwa on Combating Future Epidemics
Forbes 400 Fellow Katie Meyler’s voice trembled and her eyes teared up as she told a roomful of billionaires and philanthropists gathered for the Forbes 400 Summit onPhilanthropy Wednesday the plight of Sarah, a 10-year old girl from Liberia who lost her father and sister to Ebola before the disease killed her, too.
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Campaign for Affordable Medicine Gains Ground in South Africa
Patient and leading health organisations in South Africa have now joined a Fix the Patent Laws campaign launched in 2011 by Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) and Doctors Without Borders (MSF) to push for reform of the country’s current patent laws.
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