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medicine

Life-Saving Lessons: GE Takes Safe-Surgery Funding To Southeast Asia

P D Olson
October 12, 2018
Odetha Deus remembers trembling earlier this year when hospital staff told her they’d need to perform an emergency C-section on her, and for good reason.
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Access To Electricity

Power Trip: How Energy Saved By GE Factories Is Helping Electrify African Villages For The First Time

Kristin Kloberdanz
July 11, 2018

Borena Tiki, a schoolteacher who lives in the Oromia region of Ethiopia, has recently experienced something monumental: the opportunity to charge his cellphone any time he likes.

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Saving Mothers: ‘No Woman Should Die Giving Life,’ Safe Surgery Partners Stress

Tomas Kellner
September 20, 2017
When a pregnant woman in New York City or London goes into labor, her family typically calls her doctor and summons a cab, and they all head to a hospital. Yeshialem Endalew, a 24-year-old teacher living in the Ethiopian highlands, didn’t have it so easy. Her husband drove more than 60 miles to a rural clinic so she could give birth to their first child. As arduous as the trip was, it saved the baby and her life.
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Africa

The Power of Power: How Reliable Electricity Is Helping Africa's 2nd Most Populous Country Recharge Its Economy

Tomas Kellner
January 18, 2017
Brothers Flour & Biscuit Factory, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, makes cookies with evocative names like Dream Sandwich, Glory Banana and Cocktail Cream. But inside the factory, life is anything but sweet.
The capital's lack of reliable power is making it hard for the business to operate. Every time the power goes out, its machines grind to a halt. Dough gets ruined. Cookies are underbaked. These interruptions are costing the company the equivalent of thousands of dollars in wasted ingredients.
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Fighting Cancer in Ethiopia

August 16, 2014

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Perspectives

Powering Africa: Q&A with Andrew M. Herscowitz

Andrew M Herscowitz Power Africa
August 06, 2014
A little over a year after President Obama announced the initiative to help “plug Africa into the grid of the global economy” by doubling the number of people on the continent with access to electricity, Power Africa is already a high-voltage operation.
 
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