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Mar 1, 2020 · The current rhetoric about universal access to healthcare both in South Africa and globally is undermined by hypocrisy, failure to define the extent of recommended universal access, denial of core causal factors in determining health and abject failure to address these.
- Solomon Benatar, Solomon Benatar, Stephen Gill
- 2020
Mar 5, 2022 · Therefore, this systematic review on the utilization of smart digital health technologies to provide virtual healthcare services delivery in South Africa during COVID-19 provides insights into key strategies, technologies, and their associated uncertainties as well as implementation challenges.
- 10.1016/j.glohj.2022.03.001
- 2022/06
- Glob Health J. 2022 Jun; 6(2): 102-113.
Sub-Saharan Africa has become an emerging arena for digital health innovations directed at strengthening health care, in terms of both patient management and disease surveillance and prevention.
- Christine Holst, Felix Sukums, Danica Radovanovic, Bernard Ngowi, Josef Noll, Andrea Sylvia Winkler,...
- 2020
In the early 2000s, South Africa was gripped by quadruple epidemics: (1) escalating HIV and AIDs infections and deaths; (2) maternal and child disease; (3) non-communicable conditions and diseases such as cardio vascular disease, cancer and mental illness; and (4) deaths from injuries.
May 26, 2021 · In health and medicine, technology has paved the way for Covid-19 vaccines to be developed within months — something unprecedented, as vaccines usually take years to be developed (after many...
By reflecting on compo- nents of MomConnect, we hope to catalyse discussion on how to optimally design, prioritise, plan and success- fully implement a new wave of digital health solutions in South Africa and in other low-resource settings where the disease burden is acute.
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Jul 17, 2020 · As COVID-19 rages on, it gives Africa multiple reasons to turn to mobile innovations in order to leapfrog the continent's e-health services. Externally, the overwhelming of healthcare systems in G7 countries suggests a catastrophe is simmering in Africa, while the resurgence of the pandemic across the world suggests that we are in for a long ...