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Mobile Technologies Mobilizing Healthcare

April 23, 2009

Project Masiluleke (which means “lend a helping hand” in Zulu), a seminal partnership between frog design, Pop!Tech, iTeach, The Praekelt Foundation, Aricent, Nokia Siemens and other collaborators, is using mobile technology to tackle the worst HIV epidemic in the world in an area of South Africa, KwaZulu Natal, where infection rates are over 40%. The Economist recently reported on how new technologies are transforming healthcare, highlighting the work of frog design and Project M.