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M-Pesa Supports HIV Treatment in Lesotho
Vodacom Lesotho is using its mobile network and mobile money solutions to increase the number of HIV positive children and pregnant mothers identified and provided with treatment in the mountain kingdom.
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- Health Care
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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More Giant Rats On the Way. And That’s a Good Thing.
APOPO trains African giant pouched rats to sniff out tuberculosis (TB), a top infectious disease killer worldwide even though it’s curable and preventable. The program has proven successful in screening for TB in crowded prisons in Tanzania and Mozambique, and APOPO hopes to roll it out in at least six countries by 2020.
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- Health Care, Social Enterprise
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Google Search Now Provides Access to Basic Healthcare Information in India
Google’s latest move in India may help increase access to healthcare information among millions of people. The company added healthcare information to its knowledge graph in the U.S. last year, to help people easily find quick information in response to symptoms or concerns via its search engine, and now the feature is headed east to India.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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Four Trends in Global Health Care for the Poor
The Center for Health Market Innovations' annual review of its program database, featuring more than 1,500 programs working in 130 countries, reveals new research and innovative solutions emerging from the private sector – particularly in the areas of adolescent care, disaster response, the co-creation of solutions and reported results.
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- Health Care, Social Enterprise
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A New mHealth Device to Tackle Global Health
That global health is a puzzle that mobile health technologies can help to solve is not new. But it's always amazing to see entrepreneurs dream up new applications nonetheless.
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- Health Care, Technology
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NexThought Monday – Moving Beyond Capital: Designing Technical Assistance that Works as Hard as Entrepreneurs
Technical assistance can be extremely valuable to early-stage enterprises, but they are a diverse group with different priorities, with limits on the amount of technical assistance they can absorb. Development partners have a responsibility to listen to the entrepreneurs they support and to think creatively about how to best deliver demand-driven, flexible technical assistance.
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- Health Care
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Drone Delivery Could Give Africa’s HIV-Positive Babies a Fighting Chance at Survival
A small white drone programmed to go back and forth between hospital labs and rural health clinics in Malawi could drastically cut down on the cost and waiting time of testing African children for HIV.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Viewpoint: Health-Tech Startups Can Make India a True Innovation Hub
Whenever we talk about disruption in any industry, the existing gaps or snags within the space are the driving force behind it, especially when the gaps have reached a point of deficit. It is only at this stage of extreme deprivation that we see truly innovative solutions emerge. And there are plenty of examples to corroborate this fact. Be it the telecom revolution in India that took place in the late 90’s, led by the then newly formed private telecom sector in the country, or the more recent and still growing “Uber” led disruption for the public transport system in India or even the world. Most industries that have seen transformation at any point have benefited from the lacuna that existed before that particular industry was set on a path of resurrection.
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- Health Care, Technology
- Region
- South Asia
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