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Curing Pilot-itis for mHealth
How do you take mobile health projects beyond the pilot stage in low- and middle-income countries? Build for scale and sustainability from the start. That's the goal of a bot for Messenger built for the South African National Department of Health’s MomConnect maternal health platform, and launched this week at the International AIDS Conference.
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- Health Care
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All That Data: What Health Researchers Can Do With Pokemon GO
Nearly one in five Australians use an activity tracking device daily or nearly daily. Of the people who use activity trackers, three-quarters are prepared to share that data, on the proviso that it is anonymously used for health and medical research.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- South Asia
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Harnessing Mobile Technologies to Make Matatus, and Kenya, Safer
Kenya's roads are deadly due in no small part to accidents involving "matatus," the ubiquitous minibuses. A key problem: The more passengers they pick up, the more matatu drivers get paid. So Echo Mobile and a team from the University of California at Berkeley recently launched the SmartMatatu project to study driver behavior and how they might be incentivized differently.
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- Health Care, Technology
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Weekly Roundup: Keeping Talent, Seeking Another Uber, Auctioning Vegetables, Watching for Seagulls
In this week's Roundup: The talent dilemma in social entrepreneurship; a discussion about whether there will ever be an Uber for health care; a smallholder farmer turned WhatsApp auctioneer; and the revelation that the highest use of drones is probably not as sunscreen-pooping seagulls.
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- Health Care
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Apollo, Airtel bring health app to Africa
Apollo Hospitals and Airtel Africa have inked a pact to enhance healthcare cooperation across Africa. According to statements fromt he companies, the Memorandum of Understanding is focused on enabling easy access to Apollo specialists in the region.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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India and Kenya bolster cooperation in defence and health
India and Kenya on Monday bolstered their cooperation in the field of defence and health with India handing over 30 field ambulances to Kenya, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the gift of a telecobalt cancer therapy machine and the setting up of a 100-bed cancer hospital in Kenya.
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- Health Care, Technology
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Swine Flu Adds to Brazil’s Zika Worries
Brazil, which will host the Olympics beginning Aug. 5, was already beset by economic problems, a political crisis and the Zika outbreak. Now it's experiencing its worst swine flu outbreak since 2009. Dr. Melvin Sanicas, a program officer at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, wonders if this will be the crisis that forces a change to the Olympic schedule.
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- Health Care
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Last Mile in Style
Zipline, a Silicon Valley drone manufacturing firm, has contracted with the government of Rwanda to make last-mile blood deliveries. Starting this month, the drones will make between 50-150 deliveries per day to 21 transfusing facilities located in the western half of the country.
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- Health Care
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