Science and technology company, Merck, is empowering infertile women in Africa through their More than a Mother campaign by improving access to information, health, change of mind-set and economic empowerment. […]
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GE healthymagination Mother and Child Programme Announce Graduates
14 African social entrepreneurs who completed training and mentorship aimed at improving and accelerating maternal and/or child health outcomes in Africa have graduated from the GE healthymagination Mother and Child Programme. […]
Zambia’s Path to Eliminating Malaria by 2020
International health organisation, PATH, and in-memory analytic database developer, EXASOL, have joined forces to aid the Zambian Ministry of Health’s ambitious campaign to eliminate malaria by 2020. EXASOL joins Visualize […]
Kenya Launches Obesity Monitoring App
Kenya’s Ministry of Health in collaboration with Japanese company, Cancer Scan and its subsidiary AfricaScan, and its preventive healthcare programme development arm, Campus for H have launched an obesity monitoring […]
Uganda to Host 1st International Symposium on CHWs
Next week the Makerere University School of Public Health, in partnership with Nottingham Trent University and the Ugandan Ministry of Health, will be hosting the first International Symposium on Community Health […]
IBM Launches $70 Million Digital Initiative in Africa
IBM has announced that it will launch a cloud-based learning platform called IBM Digital Nation Africa to advance digital, cloud and cognitive IT skills to help build a 21st century […]
SAP Unveils Cancer Screening App in Kenya
SAP’s Design and Co-Innovation Center together with the Heidelberg University Hospital have developed a digitised cervical cancer screening test, which runs on the SAP HANA Cloud Platform, to accelerate cervical cancer […]
Africa Adopts Addis Declaration on Immunisation
During the 28th African Union (AU) Summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Heads of State from across Africa adopted a Declaration on Universal Access to Immunisation in Africa, in which they […]
Pathfinder App Advancing Women’s Reproductive Health
Non-profit organisation that focuses on sexual and reproductive health, Pathfinder International, has developed and rolled out an mHealth app to improve post-abortion care in sub-Saharan Africa. Around 6.9 million women […]
Ugandan Team Develops Pneumonia mHealth Kit
A team of Ugandan graduates from Makerere University have developed the Mamaope – meaning “mother’s hope” – mHealth diagnostic tool kit that can accurately detect pneumonia in children. The team […]
ChemoQuant to Transform African Cancer Treatment
IBM Health Corps, in partnership with the American Cancer Society (ACS) and the Clinton Health Access Initiative, has developed a new eHealth platform intended to help improve cancer care in sub-Saharan Africa. Referred to […]
Garmin Expands Fitness Wearables in Africa
Garmin has partnered with MTN to launch a range of wearable tech watches in Ghana to encourage people to live a more active lifestyle. The GPS navigation and sports tech […]