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The director-general of the World Health Organisation (WHO), Dr.Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, tweeted this last month. He argued that the world must harness the power of digital technologies for [...]

Cuba has for a long time boasted the lowest child mortality rate in the Caribbean and Latin America. Given the post-revolutionary regime’s implementation of universal healthcare and unrelenting [...]

1.  Make sure that you click the “fundraise for us” button on your chosen charity’s page Not only will this mean that the funds that you raise will go directly to your chosen charity, it also [...]

In what the UN calls “the world’s fastest growing refugee crisis,” nearly 1 million Rohingya Muslims have fled to Bangladesh, escaping recent violence and ethnic persecution in Myanmar.1 Though [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]