The Healthymagination Mother and Child Programme initiative, launched in March by GE and Santa Clara University's Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship, is looking to accelerate much-needed medical innovations in nine sub-Saharan African countries where roughly two-thirds of the world's maternal deaths occur. The social innovators and entreprenuers selected for the initaitve attended a three-day workshop in Nairobi, Kenya. Read more. More about GE in Africa in this BRIEFING.
Entrepreneurs at the Healthymagination workshop. "Social innovations and entrepreneurs in the health sector have in recent years yielded sustainable solutions to some of the world's biggest health challenges," said Jay Ireland, GE Africa president and CEO
Dr Muntaqa Umar-Sadiq, CEO of the Private Sector Health Alliance, and Robert Wells, Executive Director of Healthymagination at the three-day workshop for entrepreneurs in Nairobi, Kenya.
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Back in June, the Organisation of African First Ladies Against HIV/AIDS (OAFLA) joined GE and the Santa Clara University Miller Center at a First Ladies of Africa Event to dis Read more »
Hard on the heels of its recent expansion of Vscan antenatal screenings to more than 2 million expectant mothers across Nigeria, GE--through its Healthymagination Mother & Child ... Read more »
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