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Proving that mobile can revolutionise healthcare
A mobile health initiative now being expanded across numerous rural clinics in South Africa’s Eastern Cape Province underlines the positive impact mobile can have on healthcare.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Small traders can track sales and customer trends
THE PRINCIPAL salesman of any enterprise is the business owner. This is simply the hard lesson that many small and micro enterprise (SME) owners learn over time.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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The Top 3 Public Health Trends Across Africa
In advance of the many health-related discussions to take place in September at the Clinton Global Initiative, the Social Good Summit, UN week and other such events, the Skoll World Forum asked some of the world’s leading voices in global health to paint a comprehensive picture of key trends, challenges and opportunities to realizing healthcare access and treatment around the world.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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An Extinction to Celebrate
The other month, in South Sudan, I sat with a nine-year-old named Nakal twice a day. She had come from the Mogos containment-care center, in Eastern Equatoria, where, for two weeks, she was tortured by a guinea worm emerging from her right knee.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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A nation of the hungry and obese
South Africa is heading for a health disaster: more than half the population is living in hunger or at risk of it, while a large percentage of the rest are obese or at risk of developing poor lifestyle-related illnesses.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- nutrition
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Financial firms turn focus on people living with HIV/AIDS
Previously, people used to equate HIV/AIDS to a death sentence.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Road deaths, cancer and diabetes becoming Africa’s hidden epidemics
Urbanisation accelerating rise in health problems, while more cars on the road are pushing up accident rates, says World Bank
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Malaria resurgence in Africa has health authorities scrambling for new weapons
Could the much-maligned DDT become the new pesticide of choice?
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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