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Wellahealth’s Healthsend Africa Enters Kenya, Plans to Expand into Other African Countries
Immigrants can use the service to top up a website wallet system and pay for many healthcare services the company offers for their family members in Nigeria and Kenya.
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- Health Care, Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Press Release: USAID Invests Initial $4 Million to Global Financing Facility in Continued Push to Support Health Workers and Bolster Primary Health Care Systems
The initial USAID investment of $4 million to the GFF establishes a trust fund focused on strengthening PHC systems capable of effectively delivering outbreak and pandemic response services in GFF partner countries.
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- Finance, Health Care
- Region
- Global
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How ‘Unauthorized Status’ Is Threatening US Global HIV Initiative
HIV and AIDS advocates and Democratic lawmakers say the politicization of PEPFAR risks the integrity of the program.
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- Health Care, Investing
- Region
- Global
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- public health
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Press Release: USAID Announces New $37 Million Contract to Strengthen the Capacity of Local Health Entities, Prioritize Critical Health Security Gaps
The Localize Global Health Security project will help advance the second localization goal by issuing grants to local organizations for interventions to address critical gaps in the country’s health security.
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- Health Care
- Region
- Global
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New Funding to Ensure 370 Million Children Receive Polio Vaccinations and to Boost Health Innovation in Low-Income Countries
To promote swift progress towards eradicating wild poliovirus, the partnership aims to deliver €500 million in payments to the Global Polio Eradication Initiative – specifically the World Health Organization and UNICEF.
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- Health Care
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Press Release: Report: Water Crisis Threatens $58 Trillion in Economic Value, Food Security and Sustainability
Water, the world's most precious yet undervalued resource, lies at the heart of a mounting global crisis that threatens both human and planetary health, warns a new report, published today by WWF.
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- Agriculture, Environment, WASH
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- Global
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Press Release: Gates Foundation to Accelerate mRNA Vaccine Innovation and Manufacturing in Africa and Globally
This new funding builds on the foundation’s previous US$55 million investment in mRNA manufacturing technology.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Analysis: An Exodus of Nurses Has Caused a “Medical Brain Drain” in Nigeria. Are Rich Countries to Blame?
The US and Europe are drawing healthcare workers from countries that can least afford to lose them.
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- Health Care
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- employment, public health
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