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PayPal Helps Entrepreneurs With MetLife and Village Capital
PayPal, venture capital firm Village Capital and financial health expert, MetLife Foundation, have come to together to launch Finance Forward – a global coalition to support fresh entrepreneurs.
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- Entrepreneurship, Finance, Health Care
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Bill Gates and Former Bass Guitarist Aim to Change Health Care
The Gates Foundation makes its first equity investment in online health care with stake in Indonesia’s Halodoc.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Asia Pacific
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Unlocking the Power of Informal Retailers: Mobile Solutions for Commercial and Social Impact in Emerging Markets
More than 61% of the world’s workers earn their living in the informal sector – and 93% of those are in emerging markets. This can lead to unique challenges for both informal retailers and their customers - and for the companies whose products these retailers sell. Analysts at Every1Mobile explore these challenges, and share how their organization and its partners are utilizing mobile-based platforms to help modernize informal trade and unlock economic welfare for low- and middle-income populations.
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- Entrepreneurship, Technology
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Startups Trying to Fix Nigeria’s Broken Healthcare System Are Winning Global Investor Interest
Startups identifying gaps in the healthcare delivery value chain across Africa’s most populous country are increasingly winning investor attention and dollars.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Viewpoint: Taming the Wild West of Digital Health Innovation
Digital innovations in health hold significant promise – and imply serious risks. Only with a clear-eyed assessment of a new technology – including who is responsible for it and who could be left behind if it is deployed – can we ensure that the digital revolution delivers on its promise to improve global health.
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- Health Care, Technology
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Ghana’s Budding Health Tech Sector is Finally Getting Deserved Global Recognition
Ghana’s long unsung health tech sector is getting global validation with two of its most promising startups being named among five winners for one of the most prestigious social enterprise awards in the world.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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African e-health startups secure $1.5m Skoll Foundation grants
African e-health startups mPedigree and mPharma are among the five organisations to have been awarded US$1.5 million in grant funding after winning the 2019 Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship.
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- Entrepreneurship, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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ATMs For Medicine? That’s One Way Pharmacies Are Going Digital
Officially, the ATM-like machines are called Pharmacy Dispensing Units. They cost about $159,000 each are being funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development and other global organizations.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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