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Heifer Awarded $750,000 From Starbucks Foundation to Support Coffee Farmers in Tanzania
Heifer International was awarded a Starbucks Foundation grant of $750,000 to help fund the Mbozi Farmer Livelihood Improvement Project in Tanzania, which will help improve livelihoods and quality of life for smallholder coffee growing communities in the East African country.
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- Agriculture, Environment
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- impact investing
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Obgyn Training in Sub-Saharan Africa Bolstered By New Collections Shared Both Online and Offline
U-M’s 1000+ OBGYN Project provides free access to educational materials to support ob-gyn training in Africa for improved maternal, newborn care.
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- Education, Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Saving Lives By Making Malaria Drugs More Affordable
Forty percent of all malaria-caused deaths in sub-Saharan Africa occur in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Nigeria, according to the World Health Organization. The private sector "supply chain" manages 74% of the drug volume in Congo and 98% in Nigeria where malaria-stricken patients rely on "drug shops" and other for-profit retail outlets to get life-saving medicine.
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- Health Care
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Africa Can Lead the Way in Mobile
It is a truth universally acknowledged that the future of Africa is mobile. And it does seem that the good news for mobile in Africa keeps on rolling in. This month a bullish MTN Group announced a 20% jump in net profit in 2014 from the previous year, with sales growth in Nigeria and other major markets such as Cameroon and Uganda. The company announced that it would invest R30bn this year to grow its infrastructure in the 23 countries where it operates.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Kenyan Startups Tackle Expensive Remittances Through Bitcoin
It’s been declared dead countless times in the West, but in Kenya's start-up scene Bitcoin is all the rage. Kenyan companies have been attracting funding lately to build cheap Bitcoin-based remittance services that some think could give Western Union a run for its money, though others say it’s still got a long way to go.
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- Uncategorized
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- remittances
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Superslick Coatings Conquer Ketchup, But What About Ebola?
The videos are almost unbelievable. Ketchup slides out of the jar and you don't even have to give it a thump. Glue slips out of the bottle without a molecule left inside. And what about getting that last smidgen of toothpaste from a used tube? No problem.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Simpler Antibiotic Regimen Helps Sick Babies in Developing Nations
Newborns and young infants in developing nations who have suspected severe bacterial infections can be effectively treated outside a hospital, two new studies suggest.
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- Health Care
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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GlaxoSmithKline and Merck Ebola Vaccines Succeed in Phase II Liberian Trials
Two Ebola vaccines, one developed by the NIH and GlaxoSmithKline ($GSK) and the other by Merck ($MRK) and NewLink ($NLNK), have sailed through Liberian trials and, based on the results, may now advance to Phase III trials.
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- Health Care
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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