Articles by Rose Weeks
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Tuesday
June 14
2011Vouchers Are Putting Kenyan Women in Charge of Care
A collaboration of the Kenyan government, German development bank KfW, and PriceWaterhouseCoopers aims to reduce pregnancy-related deaths through incentives. The program offers vouchers to stimulate demand from low-income consumers to seek care for pregnancies and to reimburse high-quality healthcare suppliers for providing the contracted services.
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Friday
May 13
2011New Techniques, Technology Helping Operation ASHA to Expand
Operation ASHA is a community-based program founded in the Delhi slums to fight the spread of antibiotic resistant TB strains by incentivizing counselors to closely monitor progress of patients and ensure they finish courses of DOTS. They have been growing at a dizzying pace with plans to expand to Cambodia, Morocco, Ghana, and Kenya.
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- Health Care, Impact Assessment, Technology
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Friday
March 4
2011Technology to the People! Taking Telemedicine to Scale in Rural India
Long known as an IT capital, India?s health infrastructure for years lagged behind the Tiger-like force of its software industry. No more: In the past decade, thanks to growing support from government, private sector innovation, and a great leap forward in infrastructure development, ICT is transforming the way people receive health care.
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Tuesday
March 1
2011Better Living Through Information
Nandu Madhava is banking on young people’s thirst for practical health information presented via original video and text content - delivered over mobile phones. His company, mDhil (m for mobile, Dhil for heart), is based in Bangalore’s Richmond Town, with a focus on educating urban youth on often taboo sexual health issues in frank, open ways.
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Thursday
February 24
2011Advancing Healthcare With the BoP Series: Dial 104 for Health
A housewife in rural Andhra Pradesh, India has persistent lower back pain. Like 86 percent of other villages in AP, hers lies more than 3 km from the nearest hospital. Before 2007, she would, like most rural residents, be resigned to seeing a local, untrained doctor when her pain worsened. Today, she simply dials 104 from her mobile phone.
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- Health Care
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Monday
February 21
2011Healthcare With the BoP Series: Staying Out of the Medical Poverty Trap In Pakistan
An adolescent golf champion who grew up to be Pakistan?s first female cardiologist, Sania Nishtar wields influence in forums from the World Health Organization to the Clinton Global Initiative. Through her NGO, Heartfile, she has honed in on one critical barrier to health delivery for the poor: serious shortfalls in financing.
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- Health Care