Tag Archives: health

MTN South Africa Using SMS to Spread Information about HIV/AIDS

August 20, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
If you’ve spent any time using an MTN phone in Africa, you’ve gotten the ubiquitous “Please Call Me” SMS that means someone would like to ...
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Good Marketing Leads to Healthier Snacking in Jakarta

August 4, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
Mercy Corps and local entrepreneurs in Jakarta have teamed up to build healthier snack carts. Instead of sweets and chips, the carts sell healthy ...
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US & Africa Collaborate for Lab Accreditation

July 29, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
WHO and PEPFAR announced that they would be collaborating with African labs towork towards accreditation. They have established a 5-step process that will allow labs ...
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South Africa’s Billion Dollar AIDS Scam

June 12, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
Authorities are looking into South Africa’s equivalent of Bernie Madoff’s Ponzi scheme, in which purchase orders for AIDS drugs were faked… Hundreds of investors have been ...
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Zimbabwean Social Entrepreneur Targets Healthcare

May 10, 2009 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
Charles Takawira, has gone through multitudes of problems including losing both his parents to the dreaded HIV/Aids but the 27-year-old Zimbabwean social entreprenuer never given ...
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This Week in Appfrica [Nov 30 - Dec 6, 2008]

December 7, 2008 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
“This Week in Appfrica” is a weekly digest highlighting articles and stories from the previous week. If you’re interested in becoming an advertiser on this ...
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The Micronutrient Initiative

December 5, 2008 | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post
“No other technology offers as large an opportunity to improve lives … at such low cost and in such a short time.” - The World ...
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