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New funding and concrete results are paving the way for scaling up mhealth technologies — but carefully, writes Priya Shetty. Five years ago, the way that mobile phones and computers would transform the provision of healthcare provision in low-resource countries seemed straightforward. Doctors and nurses could send SMS reminders to patients to take HIV or TB [...]
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A new proficiency testing scheme that requires all labs in East Africa to better their services is likely to reduce on haphazard work as the region moves to promote the delivery of standardised services. The move requires that tested product in laboratories across the region produce results that meet set standards. The labs that have [...]
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Rome — Two days after taking over, FAO’s new Director-General José Graziano da Silva told his inaugural press conference that the total elimination of hunger and undernourishment from the world will be his top priority. Graziano da Silva told journalists that with a term in office of only three and a half years there was [...]
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Tunisia ranked second in thalassotherapy tourism for another consecutive year, despite a 60 % regression in the medical-tourism sector in 2011. Thalassotherapy is a therapeutic skin-treatment method, where mineral elements present in sea-water are believed to have health-related benefits when absorbed through the skin. By combining the comfort of luxury hotels with the rejuvenation of [...]
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Chinese government to invest $1.78B in Nigerian biofuels, the latest in a series of projects announced in West Africa. In Nigeria, Bloomberg and several local outlets are reporting that the Nigerian government has signed a $2.55 billion development deal with Global Biofuels, to construct 15 integrated biorefineries throughout the West African nation. According to reports, the first [...]
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Diaspora remittances are a key foreign exchange earner for Africa with US$40-billion flowing from the west annually. That figure is growing at 15% per year, according to the chief executive officer of Homestrings, Eric Vincent Guichard. Founded last year, Homestrings provides investors from the African diaspora and elsewhere the means to invest on the continent [...]
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Countries are using innovative schemes to train and retain health professionals — but they need support, says WHO expert Manuel M. Dayrit. Countries in Sub-Saharan Africa are struggling to keep medical school graduates Flickr/World Bank Photo Collection When you picture the doctor of the 21st century, what do you see — a specialised professional working with [...]
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Posted by
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A major milestone recorded in Nigeria’s Information Communication and Telecommunications industry in 2011 was the creation of Ministry of Communication Technology by President Goodluck Jonathan. The ministry was created out of two ministries: Ministry of Science and Technology and Ministry of Information and Communications. The ministry has five agencies under it: Nigerian Communications Co
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