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Mobile health: donors should follow, not lead
No more preempting local demand with substandard products, the mHealth sector needs donors willing to learn from local actors and invest in sustainable business models.
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- Health Care, Technology
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A Doctor in your Pocket: The medical potential of smart phones
Mobile access has provided vast new opportunities for businesses and non-profits serving the base of the pyramid – even though most BoP cell phone users have feature phones limited to voice and texting. But with improving networks and falling prices, smart phone technology promises to expand the mobile revolution in developing markets in the coming years, providing game-changing possibilities for health care consumers and companies.
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- Health Care, Technology
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The dirty little secret for making better vaccines
A menu of 61 new strains of genetically engineered bacteria may mean better vaccines for diseases like flu, whooping cough, cholera, and HPV.
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- Education, Health Care