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Jul 30, 2014
MTS India to send 9 million SMSs on immunization alerts
MTS India has partnered with Responsenet to create awareness on immunization against whooping cough, measles, diphtheria, Hib infection, pertusis, tuberculosis and tetanus.
Jul 30, 2014
Innovation knows no borders: Delivering on the health MDGs
Despite our progress, far too many people — mainly women and children — are compromised or killed by diseases that we can prevent.By building on the experience of the MDGs and tapping new sources of innovation, particularly in poorer countries, we are poised to change history.
Jul 24, 2014
African Content Award: Best Practices in Mobile Applications for Africans-by Africans – Deadline: July 30th
The African Development Bank has launched a special award to recognize creativity in the best mobile applications. This award is set up to promote innovation, creativity and collaboration within the continent, so entries are restricted to African individuals and organizations.
Jul 22, 2014
Time for a revolution in reporting of global health data
Writing in The Lancet, Richard Horton has identified three revolutions in global health: the first in metrics, the second in accountability, and the third in quality of health care. The time is right for the fourth revolution: new global standards to make available the data, methods, and models used in global health estimates of incidence, prevalence, mortality, and morbidity to enable replication, setting in motion a new era in global health research. Only then will we ensure transparency, intensify scrutiny, and create accountability in global health.
Jul 22, 2014
Technology-based mobile health takes off in developing countries
Accessible healthcare solutions that use just a mobile phone are being used simultaneously by patients in both developing and developed markets.
Jul 21, 2014
African Moms Go Digital for Better Healthcare
A new initiative that aims to improve maternal and child health and nutrition in sub-Saharan Africa is being launched in September 2014 using digital technology. Gemalto, a digital security company, is partnering with the mobile telecommunications association called Groupe Speciale Mobile Association (GSMA).
Jul 17, 2014
Immunization coverage reaches 84%, still short of 90% goal
More than 111 million infants received vaccines in 2013 to protect them from deadly diseases. These infants account for about 84% of the world’s children, but an estimated 21.8 million infants remained unvaccinated, according to new estimates from WHO and UNICEF.
Jul 14, 2014
MOTECH Suite workshop: August 27-29 in Accra, Ghana
Dimagi and Grameen Foundation are hosting the first ever MOTECH Suite workshop from August 27-29 in Accra, Ghana. The goals of the workshop are to build a community of mobile health implementers in Ghana, share best practices & strategies for mHealth projects running at scale, and enable participants to be leaders in mHealth within their organizations.
Jul 7, 2014
Delivering on the Data Revolution in Sub-Saharan Africa
Since the term “data revolution” was brandished in the High-Level Panel report on the Post-2015 Development Agenda, there has been a flurry of activity to define, develop, and drive an agenda to transform the way development statistics are collected, used, and shared the world over. And this makes sense — assessing the new development agenda, regardless of its details, will need accurate data.
Jul 2, 2014
Helping the world’s poor, via cell phones
Cell phones have become ubiquitous even in the world’s poorest places. Now, researchers are using data collected by the devices to address third-world problems, according to a report provided exclusively to Fortune.
The report, produced by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in conjunction with strategy consulting firm Cartesian, argues that analyzing mobile data has the potential to improve the lives of the poor in many ways—from expanding access to banking services to tracking the spread of infectious diseases.