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Designing a Hospital Like a Village Could Solve One of Africa’s Biggest Health Problems
There’s a courtyard with a space for gardening, cooking in a shared kitchen, and laundry done under the shade of a roof that collects rainwater. The Maternity Waiting Village at the Kasungu district hospital in central Malawi emulates the communal spaces of traditional villages. The goal of the design is to attract expectant mothers from remote areas to the facility before giving birth.
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More phones, few banks and years of instability are transforming Somalia to a cashless society
In the streets of Mogadishu, the future has arrived: cash is disappearing, credit cards are unnecessary, and daily shopping is speedy and digital.
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Hershey partners with cocoa suppliers to build health centers
The Hershey Co. has partnered with cocoa suppliers Blommer Chocolate and Olam Cocoa to fund and build a community health center in Cote d’Ivoire in the town of Teapleau on the Western side of the country.
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Viewpoint: What is Driving Africa’s Low Insurance Coverage?
It has been established that only about five per cent to six per cent of Africa’s estimated 800 million people, excluding South Africa, has access to insurance services.
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Price for TB Drug Too High, Unaffordable, MSF Says
International medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) have expressed concern over the high price announced for new tuberculosis (TB) drug, delamanid.
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A $2 Test Might Have Helped This Man With HIV Avoid Daily Spinal Taps
His body wasted from AIDS, Fred Muzaya sat up in his bed on a January morning at Mulago Hospital in Kampala, Uganda, and faintly smiled at a doctor he couldn't see.
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Framework Unveiled to Raise Financial Literacy
A national financial education framework has been launched to address money literacy and consumer protection challenges.
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Social Enterprise Ghana Launches First Industry Group
Social Entrepreneurs Ghana (SE Ghana) is being launched by a number of social entrepreneurs and organizations including Reach for Change, the British Council, Impact Hub, Growth Mosaic, TEDxAccra, mPedigree, TANOE, Street Library, Challenging Heights, Ashesi University, AACT, Nneka Foundation, Farmable, CRESSENT, InnoHuB, phinklife, Kokroko foundation, GEW and Center for Social Innovation.
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