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RxScanner™: Making medicines safe globally

According to the WHO and Interpol, over one million people die annually from counterfeit medicines. Such medicines have a serious impact on population health, including treatment failure, toxicity, and contribution to antimicrobial ...
11 Nov
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Towards “UHC 2.0”: new models for sustaining population health

Just a few weeks ago, the world’s leaders gathered for the first United Nations High Level Meeting on Universal Health Coverage (UHC), issuing a forceful call to place the Sustainable ...
17 Oct
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Drone technologies: increasing access to life-saving medical supplies in East Africa

This blog post was written by Sophie Allcock, with approval from Zipline. Worldwide, millions of people die every year because they are unable to receive life-saving medicines and healthcare. This ...
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30 Jul
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Development of SMS within a technology-based mental health intervention: the Allillanchu Project

This blog post was written by Mauricio Toyama, Francisco Diez-Canseco and J. Jaime Miranda. Mental illness is one of the leading causes of ill-health worldwide, with one in four people ...
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14 Mar
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ChemoQuant: a web-based tool for improving access to cancer treatment in Africa

In sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) more people die of cancer than malaria or tuberculosis each year.(1) The World Health Organization estimates that cancer deaths in the region will increase by 85% ...
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05 Feb
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Tackling the World’s Greatest Health Challenges Using Biometrics

Of the 1.1 billion people in the world who do not have a formal identity, 40% are children under the age of 18 and 78% are located in underdeveloped areas ...
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31 Jan
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Anticipating the wave of H3Africa genomic data

This blog post was written by Michèle Ramsay, Clement Adebomowo and Nicola Mulder The Human Heredity and Health in Africa (H3Africa) Consortium developed as a partnership among the African Society of ...
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24 Oct
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Infodemiology and public health in Peru

The investigation of public Web searches allows us to expand the boundaries of public health research. We call this tool infodemiology. This portmanteau of informatics and epidemiology can be defined ...
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24 May
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100 for Parkinson’s – using the power of people’s own smartphones to understand more about the condition

One in every 500 people has Parkinson’s disease, which equates to 10 million people globally with the condition. Patients often have infrequent contact with their doctors, so large gaps exist ...
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11 Apr
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The Safer Deliveries programme: a digital platform to help pregnant women in Zanzibar deliver safely

Despite comparatively good access to health facilities and high rates of antenatal care, over half of deliveries in Zanzibar occur at home. Safer Deliveries, a programme designed and implemented by ...
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09 Mar
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