Articles by Imani Cheers
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Guest Articles
Friday
December 6
2013‘Mobile Midwife’ Empowers Ghanaian Women: Phone apps provide key information during different stages of pregnancy
Almost everyone in Ghana has a mobile phone subscription. That led a to a collaborative initiative to use cell phones to increase the quantity and quality of prenatal and neonatal care in rural Ghana and improve health outcomes for mothers and their newborns.
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- Health Care, Technology, Telecommunications
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Thursday
July 25
2013The Mobile Alliance for Maternal Action: Using mobile technology to improve maternal health access in South Africa
According to UNICEF, 4,300 mothers die in South Africa every year due to complications of pregnancy and childbirth, 20,000 babies are stillborn and another 23,000 die in their first month of life. In total, 75,000 children do not make it to their fifth birthday.
To address these challenges, mobile technologies are providing women with access to life-saving maternal health information.- Categories
- Health Care, Technology
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- public health