Basic Needs, an international NGO report that ‘mental health problems account for almost 13% of the world’s total disease burden, affecting up to 450 million people worldwide at any one [...]
Access.mobile is working in Uganda to provide patients with access to electronic health records, communication via SMS and online practice management tools. Access.mobile company video [...]
Selfless held its Global Health Leadership Awards to recognise the efforts of volunteers that had travelled to Bangladesh on the Elective Aid 2017 mission. The medical students worked with local [...]
Inspired by a terrible first night on-call, Dr Mohammod Chisti developed a low cost innovation to help save lives of babies with pneumonia. Dr Chisti, who is from Bangladesh, published his [...]
Following on from the success of the Elective Aid 2017 trip, applications are now open for students and professionals wishing to travel to Bangladesh in August 2018. For more information and to [...]
The Need Bangladesh has one of the highest rates of ocular morbidity in the world. 800,000 people are blind in Bangladesh, with 70-80% caused by treatable cataract. The incidence of cataract is [...]
Thirteen volunteers from across the United Kingdom travelled to Bangladesh this summer to provide health camps to underserved parts of rural Bangladesh. The volunteers worked with local partner [...]
Zipline, a US based company, reports that ‘more than two billion people lack adequate access to essential medical products, often due to challenging terrain and gaps in infrastructure. [...]
The 2015 Lancet Commission on Health and Climate Change highlighted that action against climate change was possibly “the greatest global health opportunity of the 21st century”. How does climate [...]
Selfless has been working in collaboration with healthcare professionals in Bangladesh since 2009. UNCHR estimates 420, 000 refugees entering Bangladesh over the last few weeks. We have a special [...]
