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Analysis: COVID Has Intensified Gender Inequalities, Global Study Finds
Researchers find women hit harder by negative social and economic impacts of the pandemic than men.
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- Coronavirus, Health Care
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- Global
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Insuring the Next 400 Million in India: Why the Mutual Insurance Model Presents a Clear Path to Scale
COVID-19 has had a devastating impact on India’s healthcare system, causing challenges ranging from a lack of medical oxygen to limited hospital capacity. But as Payal Agarwal at Uplift Mutuals explains, the pandemic has also brought to light the inadequate insurance infrastructure in the country, which accounts for almost 18% of the world's population but only 1.72% of the global insurance market. She shares the results of a new report exploring the potential of mutual and cooperative insurance to close that gap in India, and discusses how this model can be scaled.
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- Finance, Health Care
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Global Health Champion Dr. Paul Farmer Has Died
Dr. Paul Farmer, global health champion, Harvard Medical School professor, anthropologist and co-founder of the nonprofit health organization Partners in Health, has died at age 62.
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- Health Care
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- Global
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Remedial Health Raises $1 Million Pre-Seed Funding to Digitise Africa’s Neighbourhood Pharmacies
Remedial Health, a healthtech startup that develops solutions to make Africa’s pharmaceutical sector more efficient, says it has raised $1 million in pre-seed funding.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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GIC Invests $170 Million in TPG-Backed Health Firm
Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund GIC is investing $170 million (nearly Rs 1,300 crore) in TPG Growth-backed healthcare delivery platform Asia Healthcare Holdings (AHH), making it one of the largest PE deals in the hospital space in recent years.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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Nigerian Healthtech Startup Reliance Health Raises $40 Million Led by General Atlantic
The pandemic has accelerated the use of telemedicine, virtual care and drug delivery, thus fuelling investor interest in the sector.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Co-op Bank, IFC in Health Equipment Funding Partnership
Co-op Bank has partnered with the International Finance Corporation (IFC) to offer loans to healthcare businesses at more favourable terms.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- funding, healthcare, partnerships, small business, SMEs
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WHO Tech-Transfer Hub Uses Moderna Data to Make mRNA Covid Vaccine in South Africa
Afrigen is part of the mRNA technology-transfer hub, an initiative set up by the World Health Organization (WHO) last year to develop the vaccine manufacturing capacity in low- and middle-income countries.
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- Coronavirus, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- coronavirus, global health, healthcare, LMICs, tech, vaccines
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