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How the Gates Foundation and Seattle Nonprofit Path Are Helping Get Oxygen to India
This special series focuses on important community issues, innovative solutions to societal challenges, and people and non-profit groups making an impact through technology.
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- Coronavirus, Health Care, Technology
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- Global
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Nigerian Healthtech Startup, CribMD, Closes $2.6 Million Seed Round for Product Growth and Team Expansion
Founded in June 2020, Nigerian healthtech startup, CribMD has closed a $2.6 million seed round led by US-based VC, Sputnik ATX; Swedish accelerator, Norrsken; and mass media company, The Guardian Nigeria.
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- Health Care, Investing, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Kenyan E-Health Startup TIBU Raises Seed Funding Round to Help It Scale
Kenyan e-health startup TIBU, a digital platform that decentralises primary outpatient care to bring it directly to patients, has raised a seed funding round to help it scale its operations.
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- Health Care, Investing
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Indian Health Tech Startup Phable Raises $12 Million to Serve Patients With Chronic Conditions
Hundreds of millions of people in India suffer from chronic diseases. One of the biggest challenges they face is the volume of transactions they have to manage each day. There are appointments with doctors and labs for tests, purchasing of medicines, medical devices and insurance, and keeping a log of their test results.
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- Entrepreneurship, Health Care
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- Asia Pacific
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Machine Learning Helps Battle Life-Threatening Diseases. Could It End World Hunger, Too?
A group of MIT researchers reported that machine learning may be useful in diagnosing Alzheimer’s Disease and asymptomatic COVID-19 infections, from the sounds that subjects make by speaking or coughing, respectively. Machine learning is also being used to make plant-based “milk” and other foods.
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- Technology
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Press Release: Ilara Health Raises $3.75 Million Series A Led by TLcom to Provide Life-Saving Diagnostics Across Sub-Saharan Africa
Ilara Health, an innovative healthtech start-up increasing essential and affordable access to life-saving diagnostics in Africa, has raised $3.75 million in Series A funding led by TLcom Capital with participation from DOB Equity, Global Ventures and Chandaria Capital.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Analysis: Covid-19: The World Needs To Back India and South Africa’s Call To Remove Intellectual Property Hurdles
On 2 October, India and South Africa sent a joint communication to the Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights Council of the World Trade Organisation, the multilateral institution formed to promote free trade between countries. The communication asked the body to recommend a waiver of major intellectual-property provisions of the TRIPS agreement for technologies to prevent, contain and treat COVID-19.
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- Coronavirus, Health Care
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Solar Fridges and Powdered Vaccines: How To Get a COVID-19 Vaccine To the Developing World
UNICEF is building a global network of fridges and cold rooms—the cold chain—to make sure a vaccine stays effective as it’s transported to rural communities off the grid.
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- Coronavirus, Energy, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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