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Mobile health platforms are fast emerging in Kenya, where one startup's newly launched mobile health platform is attracting nearly 1,000 downloads daily, and the dominant telecom, Safaricom, has forged a partnership that will give its 18 million subscribers access to doctors.

The latest guidelines on infant-feeding options for HIV-positive mothers in Africa have not been disseminated in many countries, leaving women dangerously confused about the best nutritional path to protect their children from contracting the virus, a new report shows.

As we turn our calendars to 2012, watch for a proliferation of mHealth technologies in healthcare products and packaging.

UGANDA loses over US$13million every year in revenue, as its doctors emigrate to work in foreign countries, new research has revealed.

Netcare Ltd. (NTC) said full-year profit jumped 27 percent as South Africa’s third-biggest publicly traded private hospital owner by market value expanded facilities and its U.K. business paid lower taxes.

Following the transfer of a state-of-the-art R15 million diagnostic mobile laboratory from the Fraunhofer Institute for Biomedical Engineering in Saarland, Germany, to the Western Cape government at the end of last year, the laboratory has been operating as an extension of Caledon Hospital for the past four months.

Makers of medical beds used in hospitals, nursing homes and patients' homes will see their best growth come from markets outside the U.S. and Europe, according to Kalorama Information.

Scientists have detected a single molecule that the disease parasite uses to enter red blood cells, boosting hopes that a treatment could soon be developed.

Cell phones will soon be used to register births and deaths in Kenya, another way mobile technology is working to improve public health in developing nations

A renewed focus on primary healthcare in South Africa is expected to give momentum to telemedicine programmes, as the Government rolls out the National Health Insurance (NHI) scheme.

Life Healthcare said it would pay about $108 million for a quarter stake in Indian private hospital firm Max Healthcare, giving it a sizeable exposure to the fast-growing market.

General Electric (GE) announced Wednesday that it will donate US$20,000 to Kenya’s Red Cross, as part of the final stage of GE Healthcare’s global “Get Fit” initiative in which the Middle East and Africa region was recently awarded “the winning continent” as a result of the highest number of individual tweets per the competition’s guidelines.

A Kenyan firm has applied for certification of one of its drugs by the World Health Organisation (WHO) that would give it a break into the lucrative anti-retroviral drugs export market.

LITHA Healthcare, the fourth-largest pharmaceutical company on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE), on Monday announced a strategic tie-up with Natco Pharma, a Hyderabad-based generic pharmaceutical manufacturer.

(Reuters) - Hospital chain Fortis Healthcare (India) Ltd will buy Singapore-based sister firm Fortis Healthcare International in a move to bring all of the group's health businesses under one company, boosting the listed firm's shares.

Merck, known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, announced today that it is contributing $3 million over three years to the Pink Ribbon--Red Ribbon initiative to help address both cervical and breast cancer in sub-Saharan African nations by supporting disease education, screening and treatment efforts as well as increased access to cervical cancer vaccination.

After years of prioritising HIV and malaria, the UN has finally realised that “non-communicable diseases” such as cancer, diabetes and heart disease are now the biggest health problem facing developing countries.

UNITED NATIONS, Sep 12, 2011 (IPS) - Cell phones and computer applications can help save the lives of thousands of mothers and children worldwide. This is one of the main conclusions of "Innovating for Every Woman, Every Child", a report by U.N.

Signature Mapping Medical Sciences, Inc. a subsidiary of Applied Visual Sciences, Inc. announces today through its on-going partnership with the Aurum Institute for Health Research in South Africa, Signature Mapping Medical Sciences, Inc. will be deploying the TBDx automated slide management visualization screening solution as a component of an innovative mobile tuberculosis (TB) case finding project

In 2004, the global community acted in earnest to address the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Africa. As a result, millions of Africans are now receiving the same advanced antiretroviral therapy (ART) that has long been available in the developed world.