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African Health-Technology Deals on the Rise
Africa's rising middle class may see a rise in Private Equity and Venture Capital investments in the continent's healthcare industry
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Musa, Swiss Partner to Help African SMEs in Healthcare
Private equity company Musa Capital is the partner in an investment fund that plans to develop small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs) providing health services to the poor in various African countries.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Three Recommendations to Foster Development in Africa’s Health Markets
As the CEO of a company that markets portable, power-free medical instrument sterilizers to hospitals and health centers in East Africa, Dr. Bernstein has seen first hand the degree to which people are ready to pay for safe and effective medical care. But at the same time there is a conscious effort to avoid the creation of a completely segmented health system where the quality of care is much higher for those who can afford it from the private sector, and huge portions of the population are unable to participate in the market.
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- Environment, Health Care
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‘Innovative’ Sughavazhvu healthcare gaining popularity in rural India
A healthcare system for rural India, dubbed Sughavazhvu, which stands for 'happy life' in Tamil, is gaining popularity thanks to it's use of innovative techniques for providing accessible and appropriate primary healthcare.
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- Health Care
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Santa Fe company delivers vaccines to ‘last mile’
A couple of years ago, the head of a management company specializing in high-performance processes and materials met the founder of a nonprofit organization that supports spiritual and medical programs among the Mayan communities of Chiapas in southern Mexico. Ohki S. Forest of Canadian Mohawk descent, who visits Santa Fe periodically, was giving a talk at a conference hosted by the Bioneers, a Santa Fe nonprofit that often serves as a catalyst among social, technological and visionary entrepreneurs.
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- Health Care
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Philips India Offers 2 Affordable, Pocket-sized Diagnostics for Xardiac & Maternal Emergencies
The two products designed and developed at the Phillips Innovation Centre (PIC) in Bengaluru which is one among its key R&D locations of the 59 research centres globally.
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- Health Care
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- South Asia
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Opinion: Richard Branson on World Health Day
This year’s World Health Day is focused on vector-borne diseases.
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- Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Using Ethiopia’s Healthcare Gaps to Do Good and Make a Profit
For a while now, Magnetic Resonance Imaging or MRI scanners have typically been a luxury that both government and private hospitals in Ethiopia have struggled to afford to purchase for in-house use.
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- Health Care
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