Kenya: Cooperation in global fight against malnutrition.
By Lawrence Mbae: The UN System Network for Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) held its first meeting in Africa from 26-28 August in Nairobi, Kenya, bringing together experts from various UN…
Africa identified as the next frontier for healthcare sector
Over the past decade the global life sciences sector has experienced healthy growth. The world market for pharmaceuticals, for example, has doubled within a decade, reaching a value of about…
Open-Source Electronic Disease Surveillance Software Released
By Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory: The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) and the Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center (AFHSC) have released the Suite for Automated Global…
DVD optics for on-the-spot HIV testing
By Tim Hayes: Early diagnosis of HIV infection is a key factor in subsequent treatment, so any new route to a reliable blood test is attractive. Even better would be…
Zimbabwe Uses Technology to Improve Data Collection
By Wallace Mawire and Karanja Kinyanjui: A project being implemented under a Global Fund grant will improve Zimbabwe’s health information systems by providing Internet connection infrastructure for 82 urban and…
Global Health and Beyond 2015 Conference, Stockholm, Sweden
By Janine Ewen: This April, a remarkable conference was held involving people from many levels of practice and a variety of professionals to mark the 1000 day countdown to the…
Kenya: Using Technology to Save Lives At the Community Level
By Aude Galli: The extraordinarily rapid spread of mobile telephone use in Africa is nothing but remarkable. It was in Africa in 2001 that mobile phones first outnumbered fixed lines,…
Nigeria: Novo Nordisk launches a project for easier insulin access
By AHIN: Novo Nordisk launches a new project to enhance the quality and accessibility of diabetes treatment in Nigeria, where an alarming number of people are developing type 2 diabetes…
4 Ways Mobile Technology Can Improve Care
By Kathleen Roney: Mobile technology is popular. That in itself is not shocking. The adoption rate of mobile technology has been rapid. You can take one look around and see…
Vodafone and Boston Scientific: Transforming Healthcare through Mobile Communications
Vodafone Global Enterprise – the business within Vodafone which manages the communications needs of its largest multinational customers – today announced an agreement with Boston Scientific Corporation, a global leader…