TweetIn what’s being called the first research of its kind, a study found that HIV-infected women in Africa are more likely to spread the AIDS virus if they use hormone-based birth control. The women studied were about twice as likely to transmit HIV if they were on the pill or taking a hormone shot like [...]
A new program from HP is equipping African health workers with cell phones so that information about outbreaks can be collected and analyzed as fast as possible.
An inaugural summit on the use of mobile communications to support healthcare opens in Cape Town on Monday.
This emerging field is often called “mHealth” and the four-day summit is organized by the mHealth Alliance, founded by the United Nations Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation and the Vodafone Foundation. It is sponsored by the cellphone industry body serving the world’s more than five billion mobile subscribers, the Global System for Mobile Communications Association (GMSA).
The University of Limpopo Medunsa campus this week launched a clinical scientific trial to test a vaccine developed in Italy to investigate whether it can slow HIV progression in people already living with the HIV-virus.
Mobile phone adoption around the world has increased more rapidly than any other technology in history…The fastest growing cell phone markets, in fact, are in the developing countries where the disease burdens are also the highest. There are five billion subscribers today, almost 70 percent of them in the developing world.