Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Invest over $75 Million in African...
By Chioma Chukwunedu Over $75 million in funding has been allocated by medical research charity LifeArc and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in a boost for medical research in Africa. More...
View ArticleMDaaS Raises $3 Million to Improve Healthcare Access and Expand Network...
By Tage Kene-Okafor MDaaS Global, a Nigerian health tech company that operates a network of tech-enabled diagnostic centers across the country, has secured $3 million in pre-Series A funding. The round...
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Private Sector Engagement: The Missing Ingredient in Pandemic and Epidemic...
In May, the World Health Assembly — the decision-making body of the World Health Organization — will have its 77th annual meeting. At this year’s meeting, delegations from WHO member states will...
View ArticlePress Release: Pantheon Vision Secures a Second Tranche of $1.8 Million to...
Pantheon Vision, a pre-clinical stage medical device company developing bioengineered corneal implants to eliminate corneal blindness, announced the closing of $1.8 million in a second tranche from...
View ArticleGhanaian E-health Startup Rivia Acquires Local SaaS Company Waffle to Expand...
By Tom Jackson Ghana-based e-health startup Rivia, which collaborates with clinics to enhance service quality in the healthcare sector, has announced the acquisition of Waffle, a Ghanaian SaaS company...
View ArticleReport: Hospital Infections Kill Hundreds of Thousands in Sub-Saharan Africa,...
By Lilia Sebouai Infections acquired in hospitals are costing Sub-Saharan Africa as much as $8.4 billion each year and leading to hundreds of thousands of deaths, new research has found. At least half...
View ArticlePress Release: Tideline and Multiplier Advisors Announce Strategic...
Tideline and Multiplier Advisors today announced a strategic partnership to support health-focused impact investors—such as healthcare organizations, insurers, and foundations—that are directing...
View Article‘World’s Most Comprehensive’ Health Database Opens to LMIC Researchers
By Jenny Lei Ravelo The UK Biobank, a large-scale biomedical database containing health and lifestyle information from half a million individuals, has created a new fund allowing researchers from low-...
View ArticleNigeria Secures $1 Billion to Boost Indigenous Medicine Production
By Blessing Joseph The Federal Government of Nigeria has announced the acquisition of over $1 billion in funding to support the local production of indigenous medicines in the country. This initiative...
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AI in African Healthcare: The Good, the Bad and the RECKLESS
Artificial intelligence (AI) has gone mainstream in the past year, with revolutionary tools now available to almost everyone in every industry. The benefits speak for themselves — from improving...
View ArticleAnalysis: African Governments Falling Short on Healthcare Funding
African governments are falling far short in their commitments to prioritize public spending on health care, contributing to widespread inequalities in healthcare access and outcomes, Human Rights...
View ArticlePress Release: Saudi Arabia and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Announce...
Saudi Arabia and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation today pledged to work together to help protect 370 million children annually from polio and lift millions out of poverty across 33 Islamic...
View ArticleReport: Threat of Antimicrobial Resistance on the Rise in Low-, Middle-Income...
New estimates presented at ESCMID Global Congress show that antimicrobial resistance prevalence in WHO gram-negative priority pathogens may be “substantial” in countries lacking current data.
View ArticleBioNTech Secures $145 Million to Boost mRNA Vaccine Capabilities in Africa
BioNTech on Wednesday expanded its strategic partnership with the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations, securing $145 million in funding to boost its mRNA vaccine footprint in Africa. Photo...
View ArticleReport: Poor Countries Need $1.4 Trillion Annually for Universal Social...
By Madhumita Paul Universal social protection for low- and middle-income countries would require an additional $1.4 trillion per year, according to a working paper by the International Labour...
View ArticleWHO Launches First Investment Round, Asking for $11 Billion
By Sara Jerving The World Health Organization officially kicked off its first investment round at the 77th World Health Assembly in Geneva. It’s asking for $11.1 billion overall to fund its work over...
View ArticlePress Release: IFC and Lenmed Hospital Group Partner to Expand Quality...
IFC and Lenmed Hospital Group (Lenmed) today announced a partnership to increase access to quality healthcare, especially in underserved communities, in South Africa, Botswana, Ghana, and Mozambique....
View ArticleAnalysis: Africa Must Stop Putting Healthcare Abroad Over Its Own Peoples’ Needs
By Kingsley Moghalu If health is wealth, as the saying goes, does Africa have any chance of escaping mass poverty and low rankings in the human development index that measures the quality of life of...
View ArticleGAVI Fully Approves $1 Billion African Vaccine Manufacturing Accelerator to...
By Tony Malesi After a long-drawn process and debate on vaccine sovereignty and continental health security, the Global Vaccine Alliance (GAVI) board has fully approved the final structure of the...
View ArticleAlma Clinics Raises $2.8 Million for Expansion of Nurse-Driven Primary...
By Tapiwa Matthew Mutisi The Alma Clinics network, a South African enterprise of nurse-led primary healthcare facilities, has recently obtained a substantial investment of $2.8 million from IDF Capital...
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