Microsoft and Yensa Foundation are launching a $1 billion initiative that aims to boost the accessibility of healthcare in Kenya

Microsoft and the Yensas foundation are launching an initiative that will build on the achievements of the foundation to bring health care accessibility to people living in Kenya.
The Microsoft Foundation announced today that it will launch the $1 million Yensans Healthcare Access Initiative.
The initiative will focus on improving access to health care and health education in rural Kenya and is aimed at addressing the gap in access to healthcare in rural communities and providing new tools for the delivery of health care services.
The Yensan Foundation, which has been in the news recently, recently launched a partnership with Microsoft and Yahoo to provide universal healthcare in the country.
The two companies are also partnering with the National Health Service to improve access to information in rural areas.
The partnership will aim to reach approximately 100,000 people in Kenya by 2021.
Microsoft has already delivered its healthcare platform to more than 500,000 rural households in Kenya and plans to expand the effort with additional partners in the coming months.
Microsoft also announced a partnership today with the United Nations to bring a health care system to more of the world’s poorest nations, including the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
The United Nations is building a health infrastructure that will provide universal access to essential medicines in remote parts of the country where many people do not have access to a healthcare provider.
The new health infrastructure will be built in partnership with the Red Cross and other partners in Rwanda, Tanzania and Burundi.
The Red Cross is working to create a new health network in Kenya to provide care to nearly 40 million people by 2022, which is the equivalent of more than a million people per day.
The Red Cross also recently launched an education and information hub to provide primary health care to children in the northern part of Kenya.
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