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Organization Supported Through the Development Innovation Ventures Program
The U.S. Agency for International Development’s (USAID) U.S. Global Development Lab today announced $5 million to Living Goods, an organization building local networks of health entrepreneurs who provide their communities with quality, low-cost healthcare. Funded through the Development Innovation Ventures (DIV) program, the award will help expand Living Goods’ community health service in Kenya. USAID Kenya will support Living Goods’ expansion strategy, and help it leverage existing USAID health programming. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), Kenya has a critical shortage of healthcare workers, with 13 doctors, nurses, and midwives per 10,000 citizens. Only 60 percent of births are…Read more
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U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)