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India turns to private sector to boost health coverage
India’s new New Health Policy 2017, the first issued in 14 years, takes a sharp turn toward embracing the private sector in its aim to achieve universal health coverage. The government will seek to plug gaps in service for its 1.2 billion people through “strategic purchasing” of care from private facilities and clinics.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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Microinsurance penetration set to increase in Tanzania
In March Jamii, a local start-up offering micro-health insurance services, announced ambitious plans to expand into East and Central Africa this year.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Ayo Uganda Launches with two mobile based Micro-Insurance Products
MTN Uganda, in partnership with aYo, today announced innovative micro-insurance products, Recharge with Care and Send with Care. The two are the first products launched by aYo – a joint venture between MTN and MMI Holdings – announced in September last year. aYo was formulated to have a strong focus on delivering micro-insurance solutions across the African continent.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Social Business Roundup: Building Our Immunity to Anti-Vaxxers, Solar Loans With a Side of Health, and SRI Goes Robo
There’s a crisis of trust in the world, some of it well earned – and some, like skepticism about vaccines, completely unwarranted. We cover an alarming uptick in the anti-vax movement's profile, an effort to pair solar loans with health care in Ghana, and the emergence of "robo-SRI" in this news roundup.
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- Energy, Entrepreneurship, Health Care, Investing, NextBillion Originals, Technology
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This Swedish Startup Brings Insurance to 24 Million People in the Developing World Through Their Mobiles
Mobile insurance startup BIMA has signed up 24 million customers across Africa, Asia, and Latin America, according to its deputy CEO.
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- Entrepreneurship, Health Care, Technology
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Tanzanian microinsurance startup Jamii prepares to expand across Africa
Tanzanian micro-health insurance startup Jamii will be expanding across Africa, on the back of grant money from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Tanzanian Micro-Insurance Startup Jamii Prepares for Expansion
Tanzanian micro-health insurance startup Jamii is heading to the global final of the Seedstars World competition next year. But the trip to Switzerland is just one part of an international agenda that will see the startup launch across Africa.
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- Entrepreneurship
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Micro-Health insurance Startup Wins Seedstars Dar es Salaam
Mobile micro-health insurance startup Jamii has been named Tanzania’s best startup at the Seedstars Dar es Salaam pitching competition, and will represent the country at the global finals to be held in Switzerland in March 2017.
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- Entrepreneurship, Health Care
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