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The Doctor is (Checking) In … Via Mobile: Pesinet combines apps, mircoinsruance with old-fashioned grassroots education
In Mali and Burkina Faso, an NGO uses a three-prong approach designed to get families to bring their children to local health centers starting with the earliest symptoms.
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- Environment, Health Care, Technology
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Reversing ‘Diabesity’: Jana Care using new weapons to tackle diabetes and obesity
A team of engineers piggybacks on the recent spread of mobile phones and the Internet in India to educate patients as well as to change their unhealthy behaviors in a way they hope is scalable and cost-effective.
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- Health Care, Technology
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‘I had 250 angry police officers banging at my door’: The CEO of Roshan on the promise and perils of providing mobile money in Afghanistan
As the CEO of Afghanistan’s leading telecommunications provider, Karim Khoja has been at the front lines of that country’s struggles to modernize its economy - and his experiences have been both inspiring and nerve-racking. In Part 2 of our Mobile Money Movers series, he talks with Global Envision’s Kyla Yeoman about the lessons he’s learned about mobile money’s potential to transform lives.
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- Technology
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- digital payments
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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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‘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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