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Delegates Debate Climate Change Influence On Health
Through providing leadership, advocacy, policy and research, the Alliance aims to ensure health impacts are integrated into global, national and local responses to climate change and to encourage the health sector's mitigation and adaptation efforts.
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- Education, Environment, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- public health
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Agency ready to provide telemedicine in Nigeria
The Nigerian Communication Satellite Limited (NIGCOMSAT) is ready to provide telemedicine services to improve the health status of Nigerians.
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- Health Care
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Is Africa Widening or Rising?
Africa may or may not be “rising” but it's certainly widening. Obesity is on the rise, and is rising fast.
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- Health Care
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- nutrition
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Lifebuoy, UNICEF partner to fight colera
Lifebuoy commences another journey towards saving lives by partnering UNICEF with donation of Lifebuoy soap towards basic hygiene practice aimed at preventing the spread of cholera in Nigeria.
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- Health Care
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Why Khosla Impact Is Investing Nearly $2M in This Plug-and-Play Solar Firm
Off-grid applications are cleantech's next big market. Nowhere is this more true than in Africa, where the International Energy Agency predicts population growth will outstrip grid expansion to leave 645 million people without power.It’s predictably tough for companies in this vast market to stick out from the pack. In order to get a sense of how companies can achieve success in this space, I sat down to chat with Mansoor Hamayun, the CEO of U.K.-based BBOXX, on the eve of a Series A investment from Khosla Impact.
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- Energy
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- impact investing, solar
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Microcredit has been a disaster for the poorest in South Africa
The finance model was supposed to help the country's disenfranchised, but has just pushed them further into debt
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- Uncategorized
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Tablets Improve Family Planning Service in Rural Kenya
In Kenya, mobile technology usage is quickly becoming more popular. While these solutions increase access to services, many rural health facilities lack ability to provide adequate service delivery.
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- Health Care
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Africans once protected against malaria face new risk
While virus P. vivax causes some 65 percent of malaria in India and is endemic in many other parts of the world, much of Africa has remained immune.
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- Health Care
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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