Announcing NextBillion’s Most Influential Articles of 2024: Vote for Your...
As we bid farewell to an eventful year, it’s time for NextBillion’s annual tradition: our “Most Influential Articles of the Year” contest. Each December since 2012, we’ve selected 12 of our most-read...
View ArticlePress Release: The Pandemic Fund Announces Third Round of Funding, Marking...
The Pandemic Fund’s Governing Board approved a grant envelope of $500 million for its third round of funding to help low- and middle-income countries scale up efforts to build health systems capacity...
View ArticleTech Firm Acquires Rigo Microfinance Bank
By Henry Falaiye NucleusIS Africa Limited, an African technology company, has announced its acquisition of Rigo Microfinance Bank Limited. A statement issued on Thursday disclosed that the takeover is...
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NextBillion’s Most Influential Articles of 2024: Congratulations to the Three...
NextBillion’s “Most Influential Article of the Year” contest has been a yearly tradition since 2012. The contest highlights 12 of our most-read articles from the past year and gives readers the...
View ArticleAfrican Union Gains $45 Million Package to Boost Vaccine Manufacturing in...
By Kevin Dunleavy The African Union’s Vision 2040—an initiative designed to ensure that health, education and other basic needs for children are met—has established an objective to produce 60% of the...
View ArticlePBR Life Sciences Raises $1 Million Pre-seed to Expand AI-Powered Healthcare...
By Victory PBR Life Sciences, a healthtech startup specialising in anonymised healthcare big data, has secured $1 million in pre-seed funding. Investors include Launch Africa, Microtraction, Kaleo...
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Africa’s Startups Need Patient Capital: Could the African Diaspora Help...
African startups raised a record $5.2 billion in 2021, yet funding declined to $3.2 billion in 2023 amid global economic headwinds, and the market has yet to fully recover its previous momentum. And...
View ArticleAnalysis: How Life Sciences Innovation and Collaboration Could Halve Climate...
By Shyam Bishen, Oliver Eitelwein Over the next 25 years, there will be an additional 14.5 million deaths and significantly decreased quality of life as a result of climate-related events like...
View ArticlePress Release: New Global Survey Seeks Insights on Climate and Health
Grand Challenges Canada (GCC), in partnership with the Science for Africa Foundation (SFA Foundation), the Global Grand Challenges Network, and The Geneva Learning Foundation, is proud to announce the...
View ArticleThe Success of Climate Health Initiatives Depends on Buy-in From Government...
To build resilient health systems, governments must plan through a climate lens, says Estelle Willie, Director of Health Policy at The Rockefeller Foundation. The Foundation works closely with the...
View ArticleKOIS Appoints Impact Comms Expert Impact & Influence as Its Partner
KOIS, the international impact investing and innovative finance advisory firm has appointed Impact and Influence (I&I) as its strategic communications partner. I&I will focus on accelerating...
View ArticleWDI Names Rajat Chabba Senior Director of Innovation, Partnerships
The William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan (WDI) has named Rajat Chabba as Senior Director of Innovation and Partnerships, a new position for the Institute. Chabba plays a pivotal...
View ArticlePress Release: Leaps by Bayer Announces One of the Largest Global Surveys of...
The data uncover broad optimism as well as stark regional disparities and cultural obstacles in the West that must be addressed to increase public acceptance of breakthrough innovations / More than...
View ArticleGuyana National Digital ID Project Gets $4.8 Million in 2025 Budget
By Joel R. McConvey The government of Guyana has allocated $1 billion (US$4.8M) for national e-ID cards, as part of a budget presented last week by finance minister Dr. Ashni Singh. Photo courtesy of...
View ArticlePress Release: Convergence and Global Asia Insurance Partnership (GAIP)...
Convergence and Global Asia Insurance Partnership (GAIP) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to promote the role of the insurance sector in supporting climate-resilient health outcomes in...
View ArticleGates Foundation-Backed I3 to Invest $1.6 Million in 15 African Healthtech...
By Faith Omoniyi Investing in Innovation Africa (i3), a Gates Foundation-backed group of donors, pharmaceutical manufacturers and African government institutions will invest $1.6 million in 15...
View ArticleNew Analysis: International Finance for Climate and Health Increased to...
Today, at the 55th Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum, Foundation S – the Sanofi Collective, Reaching the Last Mile, and The Rockefeller Foundation released a first-of-its-kind analysis of...
View ArticleCan Trump Dissolve USAID? 10,000 Jobs Hang In The Balance
By Terina Allen What will happen to 10,000 employees? Elon Musk said early Monday morning that President Donald Trump agreed to “shut down” the U.S. Agency for International Development. A few hours...
View Article“People Will Die”: The Trump Administration Said It Lifted Its Ban on...
by Brett Murphy and Anna Maria Barry-Jester On Friday morning, the staffers at a half dozen U.S.-funded medical facilities in Sudan who care for severely malnourished children had a choice to make:...
View ArticleViewpoint: Healthcare Companies Should Advocate for ESG Policies Amid AI Push
On the first day of US President Donald Trump’s second term in office in January 2025, he withdrew the US from the Paris Climate Agreement, demonstrating the incoming administration’s lack of interest...
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