Jaroka health map displays disease outbreaks in Pakistan

We recently blogged about Shamila Keyani, Founder of the Jaroka: Tele-healthcare” program in Pakistan. Providing affordable and accessible healthcare to the rural population of Pakistan is a big challenge due to an acute shortage of qualified healthcare specialists and adequate health facilities and the geographical isolation of some regions. Jaroka utilizes a mobile platform to [...]

Asia’s Young Changemakers: Shamila Keyani (Pakistan)

Providing affordable and accessible healthcare to the rural population of Pakistan is a big challenge due to an acute shortage of qualified healthcare specialists and adequate health facilities and the geographical isolation of some regions. It is estimated that 75% of the population of Pakistan reside in rural/remote areas where there is hardly any access [...]

Mobile phones for HIV education in India

Like many trailblazing solutions, Hilmi Quraishi’s wildly popular mobile phone games that teach players about AIDS found success through not just hard work, but a novel idea and a bit of serendipity. The novel idea was approaching education about this very serious problem through the universal language of entertainment and using a widely-accessible technology to [...]