App/Software

Maisha Meds is a technology-enabled healthcare company committed to ensuring that essential medicines are available and accessible to low income patients across Africa. We have seen firsthand that discounts on medications given to pharmacies and manufacturers are often not passed along to patients, and that low-income patients often pay very high prices for essential medications.

A key barrier that prevents the distribution and access to life saving vaccines to majority of children 0-5 years especially from vulnerable, poor remote communities has been lack of proper identification and registration mechanisms.Putting the child at the center of the tracking efforts is not as simple, as majority of children especially in poor infrastructure and poor resource settings as well as remote and vulnerable communities have no formal record of their existence.The clarion call for the universal health care coverage and the SDG 3 target 3:2 seeks to end preventable deaths by th

cStock is a supply chain strengthening approach for community health programs. The approach uses a combination of simple mobile technology that support demand-based resupply procedures and connect community health workers (CHWs) to their resupply facility, user-friendly dashboards to allow better visibility, accountability and transparency and IMPACT teams to strengthen data use and local problem solving to supply chain challenges.

Fekede Kebede of Jimma University in Ethiopia will develop a software tool consistent with the standard treatment guidelines of the country that will be used to send short messages to mobile phones of chronic disease patients to remind them of their medication dosage instructions and refilling and appointment schedules to improve the quality of medical care by improving treatment adherence.

Peter Wagstaff of Self Help Africa in Ireland will build an advanced machine learning algorithm that automatically analyzes high-resolution satellite images for near real-time, low-cost detection of crop pests and diseases across wide, varied landscapes. Current detection methods are either resource- or cost-intensive and limited in their ability to provide up-to-date information across large and complex geographic areas. Crop pests and diseases can alter leaf color and expose soil, which can be detected by very high-resolution satellite imaging.

Noshad Ali of Precision Health Consultants Pvt Ltd in Pakistan will develop a speech recognition platform to record child vaccination data and increase efficiency at vaccination clinics. Adherence to the recommended vaccination schedule is critical for reducing vaccine-preventable disease in developing countries and is increased when caregivers have positive interactions with healthcare workers. They will implement a system that will allow caregivers to dictate and record child vaccination information via speech recognition.

Rachel Sklar of Pit Pumpers Ltd. in Rwanda will develop an interactive SMS messaging platform to increase community use of companies to safely empty pit latrines in Rwanda by using communication to increase demand and thereby decrease cost and wait-times for service calls. Pit latrines, used by nearly two billion people worldwide, must be emptied regularly to avoid public health risks associated with fecal contamination of groundwater. Companies in Rwanda provide an emptying service with cost-saving opportunities when several households book together.

Firat Guder and Tony Cass of Imperial College London in the United Kingdom along with George Mahuku and James Legg at the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture in Tanzania are developing a low-cost, disposable electrochemical lateral flow assay for smartphones to rapidly detect crop viruses in the field and enable broad crop disease surveillance in low-income regions. Most diagnostic tests are laboratory-based, expensive, and slow.

Sumeet Singh of Onekeycare Ventures Private Limited in India will develop a voice-based platform to store immunization records and improve caregiver attitudes toward vaccination in rural India. Adherence to a standard immunization schedule is essential to reduce childhood death from vaccine-preventable diseases. However, many mothers in rural and remote India are unaware of the recommended childhood immunization schedule and how crucial it is to follow it.

Suparna Kalghatgi of Bempu Health Private Limited in India will introduce an online, personalized messaging platform to educate parents and caregivers on immunization and address their concerns to increase vaccine compliance and decrease childhood morbidity in India. Despite the existence of a universal immunization program, there are 7.4 million unvaccinated children in India, and only 65% of infants are fully vaccinated by age one.