Kenya: KMTC Kitui Takes Healthcare to the Cloud
BY PETER NALIKA: The aim of technology in the health care industry is to improve skills for the medical staff and overall patient outcome; unlike the business enterprise world where…
Mobile health initiative to support Maternal care in Tanzania
By Janita Ferentinos: A new mobile health campaign Wazazi Nipendeni (Parents Love Me) was launched in Tanzania. Wazazi Nipendeni is a multi media campaign that aims to operationalize CARMMAT by…
UNICEF USES ICT TO IMPROVE HEALTH OUTCOMES IN RURAL AREAS
By Clarice Africa: UNICEF Philippines, in cooperation with Globe Telecommunications, embarked on an initiative which aims to leverage the use of Information Communication Technologies to achieve better health outcomes among…
MHealth: Women in remote parts of Africa can have access to life-saving cervical cancer screenings
By Andri Antoniades: Smartphone technology is often seen as much of nuisance as it is a convenience, but having that kind of communicative power at our fingertips has a surprising…
African Health Research Network Gets Cash Injection
By Munyaradzi Makoni: An African network on hereditary disease genomics has received a grant of US$38 million to undertake research on the genetics of infections.The Human Heredity and Health in…
Kenya: New Health Scheme Targets Nine Million
BY WAMBUI NDONGA (Capital FM (Nairobi) The government is planning to launch a new health scheme dubbed the Indigent Fund that will target nine million Kenyans who live below the…
Malaria patterns tracked in Africa through cell phone records
By Mark Roth( Pittsburgh Post-Gazette): A study being published today in the journal Science used millions of cell phone records to document the impact human movement has on malaria disease…
Africa Health: International leaders to discuss future of Maghreb region’s healthcare sector
AHIN Staff: Algeria’s President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has appointed a new Minister of Health, as he continues with his objective of revolutionizing the country’s healthcare sector. While government investment, support and…
Africa Health: RFID to prevent babies theft in Hospitals
AHIN Staff: A South Africa based company Harmonic Group is in negotiation with a South African private hospital about the use of its radio frequency identification (RFID) technology to track…
Africa Health: Technology Boost Community Health
By STEPHEN RWEMBEHO: The use of Information Communication Technology (ICT), has facilitated the work of community health workers in Bugesera District.This was disclosed yesterday by Community Health Workers in Mayange…