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Illuminating the developing world’s “invisible” consumers
Texting-based surveys capture purchasing and behavior data from people living in remote areas.
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Unitus fund’s latest StartHealth winners spotlight rise of medical tech innovation in India
Unitus Seed Fund, one of India's best-known impact venture funds that backs early-stage startups innovating for the masses, has named two winners of its StartHealth startup contest, which show medical tech innovation is taking off in India.
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Dissolvable patch offers radical pain-free alternative to flu injection, study finds
“I think this product would greatly simplify access to vaccines and perhaps improve coverage as well,” said Nadine Rouphael, a co-author of the research and associate professor of medicine at Emory University School of Medicine.
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How Vodafone is supporting health delivery in Africa
By working with startups and NGOs operating in developing countries, communication giants have access to an important intelligence network helping them to understand development needs and enable better coverage for emerging markets. And the development community, in turn, can scale solutions for wider and faster impact.
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WHO strengthens surveillance, alert and response using an innovative electronic system in South Sudan
The overall objective of the web based system is to overcome the reporting challenges of the transmission of paper-based standardized data tools and strengthen surveillance and response capacities and ultimately reduce morbidity and mortality from epidemic prone diseases as well as other public health events.
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How innovations in AI, virtual reality are advancing healthcare in India to new frontiers
After a few more interactions, Ravikumar’s apprehensions began to wear out. Screening by AI, she sensed, could help her examine more samples in less time as the algorithm would allow her to concentrate on the ones that require her expertise. “In the hands of clinicians, it will become a force multiplier, it will make them supermen,” said Adarsh Natarajan, cofounder of AIndra.
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Kaiser launches AYARISA
Following the growing dependency of the Ghanaian market on smart mobile technology as well as the inaccessibility to quality healthcare, Kaiser Global Health Limited has developed an innovative healthcare offer; AYARISA, a mobile platform that delivers quality, accessible and affordable healthcare through a portfolio of insurance plans to the largely uninsured population in Ghana.
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Blood from the Sky: Zipline’s Ambitious Medical Drone Delivery in Africa
The plastic sachets of blood are among the first commercial products ever delivered by drone, part of a partnership between the Rwandan government and the Silicon Valley–based robotics firm Zipline, which began introducing the blood drops at -Kabgayi in late 2016. The service, which is now delivering to seven of 21 planned facilities, is still in its infancy. Yet it has already had an impact. In the past, hospital staff would make three drives per week to procure blood products in the capital, Kigali, 60 kilometers away, a three- to four-hour round trip.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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