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Ebola Vaccine Trial in Africa May Support More Potent Version
An experimental Ebola vaccine showed it was safe and generated an immune response in healthy Ugandan adults in a clinical trial that bodes well for a more potent version undergoing testing.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Bringing HIV Labs by Backpack to Rural Africa
Daktari is planning to roll out its portable CD4 tester in 2015 across sub-Saharan Africa. The Daktari device is part of a new wave of lab-in-a-backpack instruments that can bring diagnostic testing directly to patients and health workers in the developing world.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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An Entrepreneurial 2015: How This Businessman Launched A $100m Programme
Tony Elumelu CON, is a Nigerian Entrepreneur, with over twenty years experience in the Banking and Investment sector in Africa. In the course of his career, Elumelu says he has met hundreds of entrepreneurs who carry in them the hope of Africa’s future. “Many of them young people with incredible dreams and business ideas but without the experience or the access to mentoring and support required in order to build a bankable business plan,” he said.With no access to the right resources and lack of know-how, the ideas remain dreams in the hearts of the young African population, while the continent’s growth is stifled by high rates of unemployment and poverty.But not for much longer.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Mobile Banking is Not Taking Off as Expected, Banker Warns
Mobile phones have been touted as the solution to banking for the poor in Africa, given that phone penetration is so high. However, some bankers warn it is not that simple.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Simple but Impactful: Transforming Nigeria’s Vaccine Supply Chain
Vaccine supplies and logistics are a fundamental component of any immunization system. In Nigeria, any hope of achieving the goal of 87 percent vaccine coverage by 2015 will remain out of reach unless vaccines and devices reach heath facilities on time and in the right quantity. The greatest difficultly lies in reaching the last mile—getting vaccines to those in the hardest-to-reach corners of Nigeria.
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- Health Care, Impact Assessment
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Will Africa’s Mobile Money Revolution Take Hold?
When mobile network operator (MNO) Safaricom launched its M-Pesa mobile payments system in Kenya seven years ago, few business models were as ripe to explode. With extremely high mobile penetration rates, a high proportion of unbanked households, a regulatory system that allowed telecoms companies rather than banks to lead the way, and a migrant population suffering from expensive domestic remittances, it is little wonder that more than two-thirds of Kenyan adults use the service today.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Home vs. Mobile Clinic-Based HIV Testing and Counseling in Rural Africa
Home- and community-based HIV testing and counselling services can achieve high participation uptake in rural Africa but reach different populations within a community and should be provided depending on the groups that are being targeted, according to new research published in this week's PLOS Medicine by Niklaus Labhardt from the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, and colleagues from SolidarMed, a Swiss non-governmental Organization for Health in Africa.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Zimbabwe Government Moves to Lower Money Transfer Charges and Broadband Prices
It looks like we are headed towards cheaper mobile money services and lower broadband prices if the State’s word is anything to go by.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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