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Baby steps to saving lives
Each year, one in 10 babies around the world will be born prematurely and over a million of those will die. But could measuring the size of a baby's feet help save lives?
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- Education, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Kenya’s merchants are warming up to a payment system born in a Seattle basement
Naming your company “money” takes some gall, but for the founders of Kopo Kopo, the gambit looks like it might pay off.
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- Uncategorized
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Finally, Micro-insurance Takes off in Nigeria
Nigeria has joined the nations that are determined to protect its poor and vulnerable by means of micro-insurance, writes Nnamdi Duru.
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- Uncategorized
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Telecoms and Banks lock horns over mobile banking in Zimbabwe
The bankers association accuse the mobile telephone operators of exploiting a grey area in the Banking Act.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Africa: Millions Still Waiting for Aids Revolution
According to UNAIDS one in four people who start HIV treatment in low-and middle-income countries do so dangerously late.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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African Medical students join fight against diabetes
Over 5000 medical students at the University of Nairobi, Makerere University and University of Namibia are set to steer the fight against diabetes.
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- Education, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Ethiopia spreads health awareness in its villages over coffee
The government has employed an army of women health workers to educate rural women about healthy lifestyle practices
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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New Study Demonstrates the Power of Ultrasound Screenings to Transform Maternal and Newborn Care in Rural Uganda
"Magnet Effect" caused by access to innovative ultrasound technology includes positive clinical trends in antenatal visits and newborn deliveries
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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