Global Public Health Alert: Rwanda Reports Marburg Virus Outbreak Originating From Bats
Rwanda has declared an outbreak of the deadly Marburg virus, a highly contagious hemorrhagic fever, with eight fatalities reported within […]
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Nestor receives WHO GMP certificate from Ivory Coast health ministry
Nestor Pharmaceuticals has received the certificate of Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) from Ivory Coast
Rwanda: Using ICT in medicine for Better Health Care
One of the most promising ICT development projects in RDB/IT division is the e-health project, which involves 3 main projects: the store and forward system, the tele-medicine video conferencing and the real time tele-medicine system.
Amrita Telemedicine connects to PAN-African network
The Telemedicine network at Amrita Institute of Medical Science has begun extending its services beyond India
Ericsson, UN to bring telemedicine to Africa
Ericsson is joining forces with the United Nations Office for partnerships to use telecommunications to bring mobile-health applications and services (m-health) and telemedicine to rural Africa.
Operation Eyesight Universal to spend US$4 mn in India
Operation Eyesight Universal (OEU), a Canada based International Development organisation dedicated to eliminate avoidable blindness, has plans to spend four million dollars in India this year for sight restoration and blindness prevention activities.
Mobile phones spread health awareness in Africa
Around nine million people live in Rwanda and approximately, 200,000 of them are infected with HIV. So, the government of Rwanda is using mobile phones to track epidemics across the country.
Emerging Technologies for Sustainable Rural e-Health
[This article was published in the June 2007 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]
The issue of rural e-Health software is a complex one. There are hundreds of open source Electronic Medical Record (EMR)systems supporting different platforms available around the world.
Mobile phone: Public health tool for developing countries
Now mobile phones are not only means for communication but also mobile phones are helping developing countries for their health-related issues. America based company; Voxiva is using technology to assist government services in Rwanda.
Rwanda Govt. launches telemedicine project in Rwanda, Africa
The Ministry of Health, Rwanda has launched a Telemedicine Project that will allow doctors to conduct their medical services through online.
