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Can NGOs and pharmaceutical firms partner to solve global health issues?
A few weeks ago, in a remote Rwandan village, I met a nurse who had set up her own clinic to serve the local residents. From a single, brightly decorated room, she was prescribing medicines and administering basic care that patients might otherwise have to walk 15 miles or more to reach.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Kenyans transferred US$18.1 billion using mobile money in 2012
Mobile money transfer services continue to grow in Kenya, with transactions growing by 32.8 per cent to KSh1.538 trillion (US$18.1 billion) from KSh1.169 trillion (US$13.75 billion) in 2011.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Uganda: Doctors Get Offers They Can’t Resist
Every two days, at least one doctor heads to the airport of a poor African country and flies off to work in Europe or America. Up to 2000 doctors have left in the last 10 years; leaving Africa with the highest disease burden in the world and the lowest number of health workers.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Innovations for Poverty Action Announces Launch of Evidence Action to Bring Evidence-Based Solutions to Scale
Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) is pleased to announce the launch of a new organization created with IPA’s support and dedicated to taking cost-effective programs to scale to improve the lives of millions in Africa and Asia. Evidence Action has been created to bridge the gap between evidence about what works to alleviate poverty around the world and what is actually implemented.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Five Skills Designers Have That Global Development Needs
“Development is being disrupted,” says Raj Kumar, president of DevEx, a site devoted to helping the international development community deliver foreign aid more efficiently and effectively. Beyond the buzz generated by the “social entrepreneurship” and “impact investing” communities, I’ve seen a significant shift coming from traditional aid agencies in the past two years.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- product design
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Smart cards that top-up health
Most of Kenya’s population can’t afford the crippling expenses if they fall seriously ill. But help is at their fingertips via their mobile phones.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Tanzania Set to Train 10,000 New Health Workers Each Year
Arusha — TANZANIA is moving in the right path towards the target of training 10,000 new health workers every year in its resolve to curb acute shortage of medical personnel.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- public health
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Can African Healthcare Systems Handle Growing Economies?
With severely limited resources, African health systems may have to think more radically about how to manage health problems, as well as about striking a more sustainable balance between supply oriented and demand-targeted interventions.
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- Health Care
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- public health