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Q&A On Impact Investing In Africa With Issam Chleuh
Africa Impact Group has been identified as a leader in impact investing across the continent, investing in funds, organizations and companies with the intention of generating measurable social and environmental impact along with financial return.
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- Impact Assessment
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- impact investing
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How Companies and NGOs Can Work Together to Tackle Food Security
While the year of agriculture and nutrition, as declared by the African Union, may be over, those issues will undoubtedly remain top development priorities and can present unique opportunities for collaboration with business.
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- Agriculture, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- nutrition
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Malaria Vaccine? Genetic Engineering Turns Parasite Into Vaccine Candidate
Malaria is one of the Great Diseases. This mosquito-borne illness killed some 627,000 people in 2012, most of them children in sub-Saharan Africa. Efforts in the last decade have cut mortality rates for the disease by an impressive 45 percent, but malaria continues to be a massive public health burden wherever it persists.
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- Health Care
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- vaccines
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OPINION: Ebola Survivors in West Africa to Share Stories via Mobile App to Help Fight Stigma
Ebola survivors in the three West African countries worst hit by the epidemic will share their stories through a mobile application to be launched on Monday, in a UNICEF-backed campaign to inform and fight stigma around the disease.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Nigeria Requires $51bn to Fix Healthcare System
Nigeria would require about $51 billion (10 times of public health expenditure in 2012) to catch up with more advanced health systems in developed economies including Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries by 2030, according to a report of the World Economic Forum (WEF)and Boston Consulting Group, the world’s leading advisor on business strategy.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Automated Mobile Phone Service Hopes to Stop Spread of Ebola in West Africa
People in rural areas of Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea battling Ebola could be helped by an automated phone service that offers advice about how to avoid contracting the virus.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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How to Combat Malaria with Mobile Phones
Martin Edlund likes to say that malaria may one day be the first disease beaten by mobile phones. Yes, he happens to be the CEO of the non-profit Malaria No More, so he has to say stuff like that. But no, it's not a total pipedream.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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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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- Health Care
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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