At the Mobile World Congress underway in Barcelona today, the UN Foundation and Vodafone Foundation announced a new initiative to study how mobile health technologies may be harnessed to improve health care in Brazil's indigenous communities.
With little to no police presence in many areas, the health system is vulnerable to ransacking and looting. Meanwhile, protestors are setting up their own medical treatment centers.
In a guest post Executive Director of Children's Health at the UN Foundation Andrea Gay describes a nationwide anti-measles campaign underway in Africa's most populous country.
Bill Gates released his annual letter today. In it, he writes about polio eradication, vaccines in general, malaria, saving the lives of babies, the need for leadership on HIV, the promise of agriculture, excellence in teaching (in the US), and the Giving Pledge
The violent upheaval in Ivory Coast provides opportunity for infectious diseases to flourish and, at worst, establish long-term footholds in populations. We have to consider that possibility when contemplating an intervention in Ivory Coast.
Today, more people have access to mobile phones than to clean water or an electrical grid. In a special guest post, Menekse Gencer explains how we can leverage the ubiquity of mobile phones to advance the Millennium Development Goals.
