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DuPont suits part of battle against Ebola crisis
The World Health Organization estimates a monthly need for 300,000 personal protection suits or seven suits daily per Ebola patient bed, according to Daniel Epstein, spokesman for WHO.
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PRESS RELEASE: Accion Venture Lab Invests in Kenyan Start-up Umati Capital
Accion today announced an investment in Umati Capital, a Kenya-based lending company that provides invoice discounting and other forms of working capital financing to small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) in East Africa.
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How Mobile Technology Can Help End Poverty For Rural Farmers
Mobile phones are giving farmers in rural communities served by Grameen Foundation's Community Knowledge Workers access to information that helps them improve their practices and earn more for their produce.
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- Agriculture
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Data Specialist in Court Bid to Block Equity’s SIM Card
Equity Bank's thin-SIM mobile money transfer system faces more hurdles after a data specialist went to court seeking to block its rollout.
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Liberian Singers Use The Power Of Music To Raise Ebola Awareness
In West Africa, one of the simplest ways to slow the Ebola outbreak is to educate people about how to keep from getting infected with the virus. Now, there are some signs that Ebola awareness is indeed driving down the number of cases in parts of Liberia — and Liberian musicians and DJs may deserve some of the credit.
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OPINION: Ebola epidemic is a ‘Black Swan’ event, say U of M infectious disease experts
West Africa’s Ebola epidemic is a “Black Swan” event that is likely to severely alter how the world approaches future global public health crises — even more so than the AIDS epidemic has done — according to a commentary published Friday in JAMA Internal Medicine by Michael Osterholm, director of the University of Minnesota’s Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP).
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Africa: 10 Reasons Why Mobile Rocks in Africa
Mobile use in Africa is expected to increase 20-fold in the next five years.
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Mobile Money: Banks get ready to take on M-pesa
Safaricom's popular mobile money-transfer service may finally have met its match as innovation in the banking sector catches up.
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