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Preparing Community Health Workers to Deploy the COVID-19 Vaccine: Five Lessons on Digital Training Learned From the Ebola Crisis
Though COVID-19 deaths continue to rise around the globe, growing access to vaccines provides a ray of hope. As Monica Amponsah, Bobbi Gray and Gigi Gatti at Grameen Foundation explain, community health workers can play a key role in bringing the vaccine to vulnerable communities in the developing world. They discuss the digital solutions Grameen Foundation developed to help community health workers support the Ebola vaccine trials in Sierra Leone, and share five lessons for leveraging mobile tools to help these workers deploy COVID-19 vaccinations.
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- Coronavirus, Health Care, Technology
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How Drones May Become Instrumental in South Africa’s Health Services
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles have been used for decades for medical supply deliveries and distributing and food aid to disaster-hit areas. Siyabonga Kamnqa looks at where and how drone technology is used in South Africa’s healthcare services.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Analysis: ‘Brazil Is Suffocating’: COVID Surge Creates Severe Oxygen Crisis
Several states report critical stock levels, loans of cylinders and even transfer of patients who require oxygen.
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- Coronavirus
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Press Release: Unite Us Announces It Has Raised $150 Million to Scale Nationwide Social Care Infrastructure
Unite Us, an enterprise technology company providing the digital infrastructure to power the integrated health and social care ecosystem, today announced that it has raised $150 million in a Series C financing led by ICONIQ Growth. The investment follows a record performance in 2020 for Unite Us that saw it expand into 42 states, including 16 new statewide networks, driving cross-sector coordination and improved health in community-based settings.
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- Health Care, Investing
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Press Release: TVM Capital Healthcare Exits Cambridge Medical & Rehabilitation Center for US $232 Million, a 4.6x Return on Capital Invested
As a highly active growth capital investor, TVM Capital Healthcare has invested and grown CMRC to be a sustainable healthcare business which continues to have a significant social impact on the communities it serves.
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- Health Care, Investing
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Press Release: The Rockefeller Foundation Commits USD1 Billion To Catalyze a Green Recovery From Pandemic
Driving public-private investment, transformative solutions, and a more inclusive, sustainable future. Launching next chapter for the 107-year old philanthropic institution.
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- Coronavirus, Energy, Health Care
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A Well-Timed Investment: How Investing in Tech-Driven Healthcare SMEs Is Boosting Africa’s COVID-19 Response
COVID-19 has highlighted the urgent need to strengthen healthcare systems in countries around the world. And according to Kristin Kelly Jangraw at USAID INVEST, funding promising healthcare technology companies is one way to do so. She explores how an investment in an innovative local enterprise is improving the pharmacy supply chain in Nigeria and Kenya.
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- Coronavirus, Finance, Investing
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Viewpoint: Here’s Why Developing Countries Should Embrace Value-Based Healthcare After the Coronavirus Pandemic
Value-based healthcare (VBHC), a decades-old Harvard Business School paradigm may hold the key to building resilient, high-quality and equitable health systems of the future in developing nations.
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- Health Care
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