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Healthcare startups in South Africa are playing their part in helping to address the inequality in the country’s healthcare sector.

--Organization Will Utilize GPS and Web Services to Build a Patient-Driven Platform for the Epidermolysis Bullosa (EB) Community and Accelerate a Cure -- Horizon Therapeutics plc (Nasdaq: HZNP), in

South Africa is on the brink of allowing pharmacists holding the required permits to prescribe and initiate HIV medicines without people first having to get scripts from doctors or nurses. The initiative, known as Pharmacist-Initiated Management of ART or PIMART, seeks to improve linkage to HIV treatment and prevention therapy among under-reached and underserved groups and communities. South Africa’s PIMART programme will be the first of its kind globally - potentially paving the way for other countries to follow suit. Linking men to treatment earlier South Africa has the largest HIV antire...

SHARE A dozen growth-stage ventures are improving access to quality healthcare, clean energy and waste management in developing countries, according to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). The UNDP, along with partners École Polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), telecoms giant Orange and technology firm SAP, selected the 12 finalists for the Growth-Stage Impact Ventures (GSIV) for Sustainable Development Goals initiative. The initiative aims to identify and showcase mid-cap impact ventures in developing countries with the "catalytic potential" to drive large impact and yie...