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Ebola virus: Britain’s top doctor accuses drug firms of dragging their heels in finding vaccine
Professor John Ashton said the pharmaceutical industry was being slow because it had only affected Africa and not the Western world
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Obama’s Africa legacy moment?
U.S. President Barack Obama’s visit to three African countries last summer might have been dubbed the “trade not aid” tour.
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African entrepreneurs turning to crowdfunding
The banks wouldn't give him a loan, so Cameroonian Georges Badjangs approached a crowdfunding platform. Although relatively unknown in Africa, this alternative source of finance is helping his firm grow.
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WHO: Ebola Spread Outpaces Control Effort
The head of the World Health Organization has told the presidents of West African nations stricken by Ebola that the outbreak is moving faster than efforts to control it.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Financial market urged to target youth savings business
A global poverty alleviation group has come up with suggestions on how financial services providers in developing countries can tap into the huge youth savings market.
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PRESS RELEASE: Innovation Prize for Africa (IPA) 2015 now open
USD 150,000 in prizes for continent’s brightest innovators to accelerate Africa’s development. With 2000 innovators from 48 countries entering in its first three years; IPA 2015 takes investment in unleashing and supporting sustainable African led innovation past half a million USD
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- Environment, Impact Assessment
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- impact investing
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Suspected Ebola cases sent home as Liberian isolation unit fills up
An isolation unit for Ebola victims in Liberia's capital, Monrovia, is overrun with cases and health workers are being forced to treat up to 20 new patients in their homes, government officials said on Wednesday.
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Protector Plus ‘night campaigns’ to promote condom usage in Africa
Population Services International (PSI) has ventured into Protector Plus night campaigns in a bid to promote usage of a new brand of condoms, New Man in Town, as the fight against HIV and Aids continues, an official has said.
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- Education, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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