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Financial firms turn focus on people living with HIV/AIDS
Previously, people used to equate HIV/AIDS to a death sentence.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Malaria resurgence in Africa has health authorities scrambling for new weapons
Could the much-maligned DDT become the new pesticide of choice?
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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In Kenya, Using Tech To Put An ‘Invisible’ Slum On The Map
If you were to do a search for the Nairobi city slum of Mathare on Google Maps, you'd find little more than gray spaces between unmarked roads.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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GAVI aims to improve access to vaccines in Nigeria through supply chains project
Funding for cold chain equipment and improved data collection to support Nigeria’s Saving One Million Lives Initiative
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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African Governments Still Underfunding Health
Twelve years after African governments pledged in the Abuja Declaration to allocate at least 15 percent of their annual budgets to healthcare by 2015, just six countries have met this goal.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- governance
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Report Finds Gradual Fall in Female Genital Cutting in Africa
A comprehensive new assessment of the ancient practice of female genital cutting has found a gradual but significant decline in many countries, even in some where it remains deeply entrenched.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Tanzania’s Controversial Mobile Phone Tax Could Grow Revenues, At The Expense Of The Poor
A controversial new tax policy in the East African country of Tanzania could have an outsized effect on its low-income citizens -- the very people the tax revenues are intended to benefit.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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The Good Nurses of Busia County
When Aditi and I arrived in Busia, dust-splayed and weather-beaten on the shared backseat of a boda boda, we did not look like your average tourists.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- microfinance