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Nigeria announces policy proposal to restructure inefficient primary healthcare system
To make Nigeria’s inefficient primary healthcare system effective, the government plans an overhaul that could lead to some sort of financial autonomy for individual health centres.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- public health
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Ethiopia’s Great Health Reform
Edna lives in a village on the outskirts of Berhale, roughly 900 kilometres from Addis Ababa. Every day, she travels through the desert to deliver essential health services to families' doorsteps. As a front -line health worker, Edna is part of a historic movement that has extended primary health care to the poorest and most marginalised communities and saved millions of lives.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Social startup creates business-in-a-box solution to empower women
When digital strategist Jovana Korac first heard that many South African girls missed school because they couldn’t afford to buy sanitary products, she was appalled. It isn’t a South Africa-only problem either.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Ghana telco MTN in talks with banks to offer microcredit to SMEs
Mobile telephony giants MTN has said it will from next year partner some financial institutions to provide microcredit to small and medium-scale enterprises.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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As Uganda’s education system struggles, for-profit schools become flashpoint
In Prossy Nsereko’s cramped office, the writing is literally on the wall. One side is covered with peppy, hand-written slogans: "Winners never quit." "We are what we believe we are." On the other is a list of school fees.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Tanzania: 86% Are Financially Included, a New Twaweza Study Says
The number of Tanzanian adults who have access to financial services has increased to 86 per cent compared with 16 per cent recorded in 2009, a new study reveals.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Opportunity International Sells Share of Rwanda’s Largest Microfinance Bank to HOPE International
Opportunity International and its affiliates in Canada and Germany have completed a share purchase agreement to sell its 50 percent ownership of Urwego Opportunity Bank (“Urwego”) to HOPE International, a network of Christ-centered microenterprise development programs in 16 countries.
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A startup in Kenya is launching “Uber for ambulances”
In Nairobi, most things can be ordered from your phone—an Uber, or taxi from one of several other taxi hailing app companies, a boda boda driver to run an errand for you on his bike, and dinner from a restaurant across town or just groceries from down the street. Soon, Nairobians will also be able order an ambulance from their phones.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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