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Mobile money increasing healthcare access
With access to healthcare remaining a major problem in Sub-Saharan Africa because of costs, the continent could benefit from using services such as mobile money and savings.
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- Health Care, Inclusive Fintech
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Rwanda becomes first poor country to provide eye care for all
Dr Jennifer Yip, from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, explained the vital importance of looking after people’s sight. “Without the resources to access eye care you are significantly more likely to become blind.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Helping Low-Income Patients Breathe Easier: Three Solutions to Oxygen Market Failures
For a child with severe pneumonia—and every other patient struggling for breath—access to oxygen is a matter of life or death. And even though oxygen is just as important to hospitals and clinics as electricity and water, market failures stand between oxygen and the people who need it. While medicines and vaccines are its primary focus, the global NGO PATH recently zeroed in on how to improve oxygen supplies in low- and middle-income countries.
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- Health Care
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Perspective: A Digital Finance Prescription for Universal Health Coverage
There are some obvious opportunities for financial services to play a role in achieving universal health coverage. Savings accounts can help people plan for health expenses, access to credit can mean the difference between getting needed care and not, and insurance can help mitigate against health shocks that too often push people deeper into poverty. Offering these products to low-income customers is traditionally risky and expensive, but that picture is quickly changing with the growth of digital financial services (DFS), which leverage digital channels to reach more remote customers at lower cost.
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- Health Care, Inclusive Fintech
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Value, Not Volume: Four Ways Entrepreneurs Can Help Restore Trust in India’s Health Care Providers
India’s health care providers are facing a crisis of public distrust, and at its root is the way care is paid for. Most health care is delivered by the private sector, where providers earn based on the quantity of procedures, tests and consultations delivered – whether or not those services make patients healthier. Patients know that this profit motive can lead to excessive and costly care, but most have neither the knowledge nor confidence to question a provider’s judgment. Chintan Maru discusses ways to restore their trust.
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- Entrepreneurship, Health Care
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Blockchain: A new technology for global health development?
Blockchain, the technological innovation behind cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum, has wide applications beyond finance, such as in global health.
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- Health Care, Technology
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Blended Finance Gets a $500 Million Boost: Convergence CEO Discusses Groundbreaking Partnership with IFC
US $2.5 trillion: That’s the estimated funding gap the world needs to close in order to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. To achieve this daunting goal, says Convergence CEO Joan Larrea, “We need to tap into new sources of capital, particularly from private investors” – a goal Convergence advances by connecting, educating and supporting investors to execute blended finance transactions. This approach recently got a half billion dollar shot in the arm; our interview with Larrea reveals how.
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- Health Care, Investing
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As the eradication of polio nears, a new crisis for global health looms
“People need to start talking about this issue. Because it’s much wider than just polio and a polio-free world,” said Laura Kerr, who wrote the report. “It’s to do with immunization systems that could collapse.”
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- Health Care
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