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UN and World Bank to boost support for women’s health, girls’ education in Africa’s Sahel
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim pledged today to support an initiative to improve women’s reproductive health and girls’ education in Africa’s Sahel region, and to invest $200 million in a new project to achieve these goals.
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Nigerian Governor – Why We’re Training Health Professionals
To address the dearth of medical personnel in public hospitals in Kano State, the state government has embarked on a deliberate strategy of training indigenes in medical and related-courses, the state governor, Rabiu Kwankwaso has revealed.
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Mobilium Smart Health app launched
Samsung and Mobilium Global have joined forces to distribute the Mobilium Smart Health app - a "Made For Africa" mobile health and wellness, smart device application.
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Ethiopia: Global Fight Against Killer Diseases At Crossroads
One of the greatest successes in development aid over the past decade has been the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria. The Global Fund has saved millions of lives and helped countries around the world beat back three epidemic diseases. Now it is appealing to the world's governments and the private sector for another three years of funding, with governments set to decide on further financing in early December in Washington DC.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Mobile money agents fortify shops to stem rising crime
An upsurge of crime targeting mobile money shops in Kenya has prompted operators to come up with new ways to ward off criminals.
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Bringing financial inclusion to the Horn of Africa
At present some 281,000 active subscribers use their mobile phones every day to transfer money, make purchases, pay bills, and buy airtime in Somaliland. That number is expected to increase to 400,000 by the end of 2014, says Adan Shire.
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Eight years after the last outbreak in 2005, polio is once again ravaging the Horn of Africa
Since May health authorities have reported 191 cases: 174 in Somalia, 14 in north-eastern Kenya and three in Ethiopia.
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Blue chip companies join forces with UN to provide better healthcare
The campaign aims to train, equip and deploy one million community health workers by the end of 2015.
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