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Airtel joins GSMA’s mobile health programme
Bharti Airtel today said it has joined GSMA's mobile health partnership programme which aims to provide a range of services to women and children across 11 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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- Health Care, Technology
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AddressHealth bags global award for innovation in tele-enabled school health centres for urban poor
AddressHealth, India’s first paediatric primary healthcare network, has won the prestigious ‘Stars in Global Health’ grant competition from Grand Challenges Canada. The company bagged the honours for its innovative model to provide comprehensive healthcare to children in low income groups through tele-enabled school health centres.
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Facebook And Alibaba Will Turn The World’s Poor Into Entrepreneurs. Xiaomi Will Sell Them Smartphones
Facebook and Alibaba Group Holding (NYSE:BABA) Limited are on a new mission: solve world poverty by helping more than 4 billion people from low-income countries get access to the Internet — and engage in e-tailing entrepreneurship.
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- Technology
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Indore: Approval for mobile app to curb dengue spread hangs fire
Even as dengue cases rise, government approval for a mobile app that could prevent the disease from spreading by speeding up monitoring and intervention is hanging fire.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- South Asia
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IBM partners with Airtel and Echo Mobile on Ebola containment initiatives in Africa
Airtel, IBM Research Africa and Kenya's Echo Mobile have joined forces to launch several initiatives to help curb the spread of Ebola in West Africa.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- public health
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Cyborg engineers, virtual doctors and wristbands to detect cancer: Futurologist reveals how tech will transform healthcare
Within the next 30 years, the global population is set to increase by almost 3 billion up to 10 billion, and this rise is set to put a heavy burden on the healthcare industry.
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- Education, Health Care, Technology
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Booting Up: Tech effort could help fight spread of Ebola
Despite the prevalence of crowd-sourced data and geolocation technology, global health leaders are missing the opportunity to use mobile technology in the fight against Ebola.
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- Health Care, Technology
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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App puts process of AIDS testing in the palm of your hand
Ask Nitika Pant Pai about her work on a new self-test for HIV/AIDS and she’ll tell you: There’s an app for that.
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- Health Care, Technology
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