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Home vs. Mobile Clinic-Based HIV Testing and Counseling in Rural Africa
Home- and community-based HIV testing and counselling services can achieve high participation uptake in rural Africa but reach different populations within a community and should be provided depending on the groups that are being targeted, according to new research published in this week's PLOS Medicine by Niklaus Labhardt from the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, and colleagues from SolidarMed, a Swiss non-governmental Organization for Health in Africa.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Zimbabwe Government Moves to Lower Money Transfer Charges and Broadband Prices
It looks like we are headed towards cheaper mobile money services and lower broadband prices if the State’s word is anything to go by.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Africa: More Nations to Receive Tuberculosis-Fighting Drug
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Janssen Therapeutics December 11 that aims to accelerate progress in the fight against antibiotic-resistant bacteria, specifically multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB).
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Ebola: UN Says Health Workers in Sierra Leone to Receive Hazard Pay Using Mobile Money
Response workers battling the Ebola outbreak in West Africa will receive “hazard pay” for the first time in Sierra Leone using mobile money because “unless there is a certain element of incentives, or danger pay, it’s very difficult to attract and retain people,” the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) announced today.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Survey: 36.9m Nigerians Excluded From Financial System
Findings from the EFInA access to financial services in Nigeria 2014 survey has revealed that 36.9 million adults, representing 39.5 per cent of the population are financially excluded.
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Cameroon Government, Mobile Operators Launch Service Allowing Tax Payments Through Mobile Money
The Cameroonian government has launched a new tax service called Mobile Tax, in association with mobile operators MTN and Orange.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Survey: In Nigeria, 2.6 Million Adults Have Microfinance Bank Accounts
A survey carried out by Enhancing Financial Innovation & Access (EFInA) Access to Financial Services in Nigeria in 2014 revealed that 2.6 million Nigerian adults representing 2.8 percent, currently have a microfinance bank account.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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MasterCard Sees Opportunity with Nigerian E-ID Cards
There’s a lot of untapped potential in the Nigerian commerce market — which is growing — and MasterCard has discovered a marketing niche with the country’s national high-tech e-ID card pilot project.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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