18 February 2016
Prof Darelle van Greunen, director of the Centre for Community Technologies at Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (NMMU) and principal investigator for mHealth4Afrika in South Africa was interviewed by the Business Day newspaper in February 2016 about the importance of the work being undertaken by mHealth4Afrika.
mHealth4Afrika is a collaborative research and innovation project focused on addressing maternal and newborn healthcare delivery. mHealth4Afrika was selected as one of four projects supported under the ICT-39-2015 Call of Horizon 2020. The proposals supported under this call all focus on initiating collaborative research and innovation projects addressing end-user community needs in Africa. Prof van Greunen highlights that it was the only project funded under this call with a partner from South Africa.
mHealth4Afrika has an active co-design and cross border focus. It is focused on co-designing an open source, multilingual, multimodal mHealth platform to support community-based maternal and newboard healthcare delivery in Southern Africa (Malawi, South Africa), East Africa (Kenya) and Horn of Africa (Ethiopia).
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