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Press Release: WDI, Africa Health Tech Summit Announce Strategic Partnership to Advance Health Innovation & Entrepreneurship in Africa
The collaboration establishes WDI as a summit and knowledge partner for the Africa HealthTech Summit (AHTS), a premier Pan-African platform convening innovators, policymakers, investors, and business leaders to drive health sector transformation.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Foley Represents Brazilian HealthTech Startup Mevo in $18 Million Funding Round
Mevo addresses a major gap in Brazil’s health care system, where more than 150 million people manage roughly one billion handwritten prescriptions each year, creating inefficiencies that limit the development of more integrated patient services.
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- Health Care, Investing, Technology
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- Latin America
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Analysis: African Citizen Digital Health Data Is Now a Condition of Global Health Funding
"The United States has signed 26 bilateral health Memorandum of Understanding with African governments under the Trump administration’s America First Global Health Strategy, the framework that replaced USAID and restructured PEPFAR." . . . "Each MOU comes bundled with two sub-agreements that should concern every digital health practitioner in a signatory country."
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Senegal’s Sovereign-Backed Fund Oyass Doubles Down on Healthtech Eyone with $1.7 Million Injection
Founded in 2015 by Henri Ousmane Gueye and John Diatta, Eyone Medical develops interoperable software that allows clinics and hospitals to share patient data securely in real-time.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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South Africa: Hlayisani Capital Secures Over $30 Million for New Fund
Hlayisani Capital manages over R1 billion (about $62 million) across three funds and focuses on backing high-growth, technology-enabled businesses with strong South African roots.
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- Investing
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Community Health Project in Kenya and Uganda Dramatically Cuts New HIV Infections
A Large-scale study finds that simplifying delivery of prevention medication and improving connections to clinics is key to reducing HIV infections.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Anthropic and the Government of Rwanda Sign MOU for AI in Health and Education
Anthropic says, "Together, these partnerships reflect a long-term collaboration that prioritizes capacity building, responsible deployment, and local autonomy over how new technologies are introduced."
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- Education, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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U.S. Formally Withdraws From World Health Organization
Global health experts worry that a lack of international coordination will lead to death and disaster.
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- Health Care
- Region
- Global
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