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The US Spent $1.4 Billion in Africa Telling People Not to Have Sex and It Didn’t Work
The United States has spent $1.4 billion over the last decade on promoting abstinence in Africa as a way to slow the spread of HIV. It hasn’t helped, according to a study published this week in Health Affairs, and may be causing more harm than good.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Africa’s Great Digital Divide: You’re More Likely to Have Access to the Internet as a Wealthy Man in a Coastal Country
Tech start-ups coming out of Africa have blossomed in the past few years, putting the continent on the digital innovation map. Two examples are Kenya’s mobile money transfer service M-Pesa which is now being offered by Vodafone in Asian markets and Ushahidi - a crowdsourcing platform that has monitored everything from disasters to elections and used the world over.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Kenya: Banks’ Mobile Cash Plan Fails to Take Off Yet Again
Two missed deadlines and uncertainty on when local banks will roll out their interbank switch allowing direct money transfer through mobile phones across the industry now dampen the prospects of the entire plan.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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One Acre Fund Expands Smallholder Farmer Services to Malawi and Uganda
One Acre Fund (http://www.OneAcreFund.org), a nonprofit agriculture organization that supplies smallholder farmers with the financing and training they need to increase their incomes and food security, today announced the official opening of its Malawi and Uganda operations. Malawi and Uganda began as pilots in 2013 and 2014 respectively. One Acre Fund now serves 400,000 smallholder farmers—with an estimated two million people in those households—across East and Southern Africa.
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- Agriculture
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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How Drones Could Deliver Better Health
Drones are the sexy, mysterious tech craze that are often a butt of a joke, a vague solution or an ominous threat. But no matter how flashy, good technology should still solve concrete problems. Amid the hype of getting packages and pizzas delivered in half the time, what if drones could revolutionize transportation networks, connecting people to what they actually need the most?
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Faso Soap: A Weapon Against Malaria?
A soap created by two students in Burkina Faso holds promise as an affordable way to fight the devastating disease.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- crowdfunding
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From Remittance to Startups, How Bitcoin Is Used in Africa
With the high mobile phone penetration already in place, Africa is set to enable more users to download a Bitcoin wallet on their devices.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- fintech, remittances
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60 Minutes Investigates Medical Gear Sold During Ebola Crisis
During the most recent outbreak of the Ebola virus, more than 500 health care workers died of the disease, and something called Personal Protective Equipment became essential to preventing the deaths of even more. We're talking about gowns, gloves, masks and other gear designed to block the transmission of deadly bacteria and viruses. They're used every day in hospitals to protect doctors, nurses, and patients. But Ebola was so lethal, it raised the stakes enormously. If the protective equipment fails, infectious bodily fluids can get through -- a problem known as "strike-through." At the height of the Ebola outbreak, we received a tip that a major American manufacturer had knowingly provided defective protective equipment to health care workers in the U.S. and abroad. It's a serious accusation that's never been publicly examined -- until tonight.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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