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Press Release: Africa Healthcare Network (AHN) Secures $20 Million in Funding Led by Africa50 and AfricInvest For A Continent-Wide Expansion
The funding will enable AHN to accelerate its growth and address significant gaps in the availability of high quality, affordable renal care across Africa.
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- Health Care, Investing
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Press Release: Illumina Launches Global Health Access Initiative to Support Acceleration of Pathogen Sequencing in Low- And Middle-Income Countries
The program, developed with guidance from customers, funders, and market facilitators including the nonprofit FIND, will provide reduced pricing structures for eligible sequencing products from Illumina to qualified global health funding entities and address key international logistics and supply chain challenges.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Global
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Norrsken22’s Debut Fund Closes at $205 Million to Back Growth-Stage Startups in Africa
Norrsken22’s target remains investing in approximately 20 startups. The fund’s typical investment ticket size averages around $10 million.
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- Investing, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Pantheon Vision Raises $2.5 Million in Seed Funding to Launch Development of Bioengineered Corneal Implant
The medical device startup is focused on addressing significant unmet needs of patients suffering from corneal blindness around the world.
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- Health Care, Investing
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- Global
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Kenya’s Maisha Meds Awarded $5 Million by USAID to Help It Scale
Maisha Meds leverages partner funds to incentivise healthcare providers to follow best practices in malaria care.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Press Release: Rymedi Raises $9 Million to Expand Impact on Global Healthcare Infrastructure with Advanced Blockchain-Secured Data Platform
The financing will increase data security and healthcare record accessibility for patients while reducing data entry errors.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Global
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Wellahealth’s Healthsend Africa Enters Kenya, Plans to Expand into Other African Countries
Immigrants can use the service to top up a website wallet system and pay for many healthcare services the company offers for their family members in Nigeria and Kenya.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Press Release: USAID Invests Initial $4 Million to Global Financing Facility in Continued Push to Support Health Workers and Bolster Primary Health Care Systems
The initial USAID investment of $4 million to the GFF establishes a trust fund focused on strengthening PHC systems capable of effectively delivering outbreak and pandemic response services in GFF partner countries.
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- Finance, Health Care
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- Global