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Why mHealth Alliance is moving to the Global South
The company which champions the use of mobile technologies to improve health around the world will move its headquarters to South Africa.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Masimo and Newborn Foundation Jointly Announce Mobile Health Initiative to Reduce Global Newborn Mortality
The Newborn Foundation’s BORN Project launches with new iSpO2 Rx mobile technology for early detection of health conditions in newborns in low-resource settings.
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- Health Care, Technology
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Weekly Roundup (12/7/13) : Amazon can drone on about flying delivery, but the BoP will be the first beneficary
As intriguing as the Amazon drone, the Prime Air was in its reveal on 60 Minutes, count me among the skeptical. But while drones - also referred to as “unmanned aerial vehicles” (UAVs) - are still a very dubious prospect for commerce in the United States, they could serve other purposes at the BoP.
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- Technology
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‘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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Health conference on social marketing and franchising
The first global health conference on social marketing (SM) and social franchising (SM), the two emerging tools to help India achieve the universal health coverage, will be held in Kochi from December 3 to 5.
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- Technology
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- South Asia
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Clean Data for Cleaner Cookstoves: Smartphone app helps improve a life-saving product
Premature deaths from air pollution exceed deaths from malaria and AIDS combined. Indoor cooking contributes to this, but though clean cookstove technology is more than three decades old, slow adoption by consumers means these cookstoves still aren’t in widespread use in the developing world. To fix this problem, some in the industry are changing their focus from technology to people.
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- Health Care, Technology
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Telecoms and Banks lock horns over mobile banking in Zimbabwe
The bankers association accuse the mobile telephone operators of exploiting a grey area in the Banking Act.
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- Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Four World-Changing Products Dreamed Up by Bill Gates
This holiday season, Bill Gates wants stuff that doesn’t exist. Not for himself, mind you, but for the developing world. Gates has tons of ideas for products that would improve lives there, if only someone would build them.
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- Technology
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